Overview
Administrative Information
Biographical/Historical note
Scope and Contents
Access Terms
Overview
Call Number: SC1165
Creator:
Winograd, Terry.
Title: Terry Allen Winograd papers
Dates: 1963-2006
Physical Description:
38 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Information about Access
The materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted
to a digital use copy.
Ownership & Copyright
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
Cite As
[identification of item], Terry Allen Winograd Papers (SC1165). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical note
Terry Allen Winograd (1946-), an impressive scholar and professor of computer science at Stanford University, is known for
his research on artificial intelligence and natural language. As a PhD student at MIT from 1968-1970, Winograd wrote SHRDLU,
a computer program for understanding natural language.
During Winograd’s successful career at Stanford University he co-directed the Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Group and
advised a PhD student in the mid-1990s named Larry Page, who later co-founded Google. In addition to his work in Stanford’s
Computer Science Department, Winograd also helped found the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.
Scope and Contents
Terry Allen Winograd papers include 33 boxes of print and audiovisual files dating back to the 1960s from Winograd’s own education
and his career as a professor at Stanford University. The collection includes professional files, publications, research files,
teaching files, audiovisual materials, computer files, and subject files on individual students.
Access Terms
Computer science--Research
Computer science--Study and teaching
Computer science.
Computer scientists--California.
Computer user interface
Computers--Technological innovations.