Kol Emeth is filled with amazing members doing interesting work and research. Join us for a new series with a behind the scenes look at the incredible people you spend holidays and Shabbat with! Our first session will feature Terry Winograd, a pioneering researcher in artificial intelligence. You won't want to miss this or any of these evenings with Kol Emeth.

A HALF CENTURY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Terry Winograd will give an overview of what has happened in AI, starting with his own active involvement in the 1960s and continuing to the present controversies that we read so much about in the press. The talk will be light on technical details and heavy on the broader contextual issues that give insight into where we have been and where we are going.

BIOGRAPHY

Terry Winograd is Professor Emeritus in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University.  During his 40 years of teaching and research he created and directed the Human-Computer Interaction Group and the teaching and research program in Human-Computer Interaction Design at Stanford. He was a founding faculty member of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the "d.school").

Winograd did pioneering research in artificial intelligence, in particular natural language understanding, during his PhD program at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in the 1960s.  His 1986 book with Fernando Flores, Understanding Computers and Cognition, marked a major departure in the philosophy underlying AI. He was a founding member and National President of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility. He is a member of the ACM CHI Academy and an ACM Fellow. He received the 2011 CHI Lifetime Research Achievement Award. He is a Fellow of the Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute and is on the board of Corporate Accountability International and is Vice-Chair of the board of Bend the Arc, A Jewish Partnership for Justice. He has been a consultant to a number of companies, including Google, founded by Stanford students from his projects.

Winograd has been married to Prof. Carol Hutner Winograd, MD for 53 years and has daughters Shoshana and Avra and five grandsons.