SHRDLU

SHRDLU is an early natural-language understanding computer program that was developed by Terry Winograd at MIT in 1968–1970. In the program, the user carries on a conversation with the computer, moving objects, naming collections and querying the state of a simplified "blocks world", essentially a virtual box filled with different blocks.

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Within Vinony's link graph, SHRDLU is referenced by 36 other articles, and connects out to Lisp, Planner and physics.

Vinony files it under Computer-related introductions in 1968, History of artificial intelligence and Natural language processing software.

Its subject is documented across 16 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Software.title: SHRDLU
Software.author: Terry Winograd
Software.released: 1967
Software.discontinued: Yes
Software.programming language: Micro Planner, Lisp
Software.operating system: PDP-6
Software.platform: DEC
Software.genre: natural-language understanding

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: computer program
Named after: etaoin shrdlu
Developer: Terry Winograd
Has use: natural language understanding

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programmed in: Maclisp
input device: natural-language user interface
start time: 1970-00-00
inception: 1968-00-00

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Encyclopedic overview

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Functionality
Consequences
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Further reading
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SHRDLU was written in the Micro Planner and Lisp programming language on the DEC PDP-6 computer and a DEC graphics terminal. Later additions were made at the computer graphics labs at the University of Utah, adding a full 3D rendering of SHRDLU's "world".

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