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Aaaah, SHRDLU, fond memories. When I was 7 around 1977 I had a wonderful magazine on robots (I still have it somewhere), and it had a long chapter on SHRDLU, an
by wazoox 15y ago
Aaaah, SHRDLU, fond memories. When I was 7 around 1977 I had a wonderful magazine on robots (I still have it somewhere), and it had a long chapter on SHRDLU, and an interview with its programmer Terry Winograd. This was the first time I was captivated by computers, programming and pure unadulterated geekery.
- msutherl 15y agoAfter SHRDLU, Winograd denounce AI as hogwash and was instrumental in starting what we now know of as interface design/HCI.
- jamieb 15y agoAnd then, 30 years later, came Siri and IBM's Watson... Winograd talks about three different metaphors for HCI: conversation, manipulation and locomotion. In the 70's he gave up on conversation for manipulation, and was right do to so, but with modern computing power and databases, conversation is coming back as a relevant model.