jean tinguely:

Homage to New York" (1960) inflated a weather balloon, released colored smoke, and operated a painting piano before offing itself in the courtyard of MoMA. "The Dissecting Machine" (1965) is a horrific assembly of mannequin appendages, toothed metal blades, and drill bits. Work on his massive sculptural project, Le Cyclop ...

nyt, 1967

gordon pask was at the conference ... still don't know if ted nelson too ...

having heard a french delegation on copyright issues in 2007 in brussels i don't wonder too much. at the time they got a lot of critizism and some figures turned silent at their panel as they realized it would be fruitless to go on with their call for sanctions in front of that audience. now they made it by using the other door. one could guess what will happen 2009 when sweden takes over ...

SHRDLU, 1968-70:

The program could accept commands such as, "Move the blue block," and carry out the requested action using a simulated block-moving arm. The program could also respond verbally, for example, "I do not know which blue block you mean." | survival99

winograd wasn't the only one at the time who played around with natural language, q&a systems: there was paul weston at heinz von foersters bcl with hirwon, there was weizenbaum with eliza [My own program ELIZA represented, according to some authorities, a major step toward the fulfillment of man's ancient dream of automating psychotherapy,especially in state hospitals, acm forum, 1974], there was gordon park with his musi-colour” system, reacting with light, ... all worked a little bit, but not too much. later winograd agreed to be richard gabriel's adviser:

... Terry had been the wonderboy of the MIT AI Lab. At a time when AI was languishing and money for AI research was tight, MIT needed a charismatic figure. Terry was the answer. Handsome, well spoken, smooth and compelling as a speaker—Terry wrote the famous SHRDLU program, a natural-language understanding system hooked up to a simulated robot that would move cubes, pyramids, and spheres of various color around according to written questions and commands. They made a film of it and it is sometimes still shown on PBS. After MIT, Terry became a scholar more than a researcher, though he still did some research, it never amounted to as much as SHRDLU had. | richard gabriel, Patterns of Software Tales from the Software Community, 1996