Rate My Professor Terry Winograd

Winograd's research focuses on human-computer interaction design and the design of technologies for development. He conducted pioneering research in artificial intelligence, particularly natural language understanding, during his PhD at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Key publications include the books Understanding Natural Language (1972), Language as a Cognitive Process: Volume I: Syntax (1983), and Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design (1986, with Fernando Flores). He co-authored the PageRank Citation Ranking paper (1998) with Lawrence Page, Sergey Brin, Rajeev Motwani, and others. Winograd received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award in 2011, was elected to the ACM CHI Academy in 2004 and became an ACM Fellow in 2009, earned the Rigo Award from ACM SIGDOC in 1999 and the Founders Award from Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility in 1996, and was honored with an honorary D.Sc. from Colorado College in 1986. A founding member and president of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility from 1987 to 1990, he served on its national board until 1996 and on editorial boards for journals including Human-Computer Interaction and ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. He has advised numerous companies founded by his students, including Google.