SHRDLU: Terry Winograd's Pioneering Natural-Language Understanding Program (1968-1970)
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SHRDLU is an early natural-language understanding computer program developed by Terry Winograd at MIT between 1968-1970. It allowed users to interact with a computer through natural language to manipulate objects in a simplified "blocks world" — a virtual box containing different blocks. The program was written in Micro Planner and Lisp, running on a PDP-6 platform. It represents a landmark achievement in early artificial intelligence and natural language processing.
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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 t
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