SHRDLU
Sign in to saveSHRDLU 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.
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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- start time
- 1970-00-00
- inception
- 1968-00-00
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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.
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".