Terry Winograd

American computer scientist and Stanford professor, Larry Page's doctoral advisor, best known for his 1971 SHRDLU natural language program and his later work on human-computer interaction design.

Advised Larry Page on the BackRub web-crawling project that became Google's PageRank algorithm — making him the academic supervisor who enabled Google's founding — and produced SHRDLU, an early demonstration that computers could understand natural language commands in a restricted domain.