Etienne Cherdlu

[Paul Mackin]

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From: 	grip at netcom.com
Sent: 	Monday, October 14, 1996 7:05 PM
To: 	George James Software
Cc: 	pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: 	Re: Etienne Cherdlu

>There is a chapter in Hofstadter's Goedel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal >Golden 
>Braid titled "SHRDLU, Toy of Man's Designing" which consists of a dialog 
>between a human, Eta Oin, and a computer program, SHRDLU.

One can't help wonder if AI researcher Terry Winograd, originator of the famous SHRDLU natural language computer program, was possibly a Pynchon fan.

W's  later work (e.g., _Understanding Computers and Cognition_
(with Fernando Flores) ) would lead to a belief that his scope 
extended far beyond the mathematico-logical paradigm.

				P.