Curriculum Vitae -- Terry Allen Winograd
Last updated August 2025.
Born February 24, 1946, Takoma Park, Maryland
Home Address: 746 Esplanada Way, Stanford CA 94305
Phone: (650) 494-1716
Business Address: Computer Science Department, Stanford University,
Stanford, California 94305-9035
Email: winograd@cs.stanford.edu
Education
1970 M.I.T -- Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics)
1967 University College, London -- (Linguistics)
1966 The Colorado College -- B.A. (Mathematics)
Employment
1973-present, Computer Science Department, Stanford University
1973-74, Visiting Asst. Prof;
1974-79, Asst. Prof;
1979-89, Assoc. Prof.;
1989-2012 , Professor ;
2005, Founding faculty, Stanford d.school (Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford)
2012-present, Professor Emeritus
2022-present, Fellow, Human Centered AI Institute
2002-2003: on leave from Stanford at Google
1992-93: on leave from Stanford, at Interval Research, Palo Alto.
1970-73 M.I.T. (Instructor in Mathematics and Asst. Prof. of Electrical Engineering)
Consulting (long-term)
Google, 2001- 2012
Interval Research, 1993-1998
Action Technologies, Inc., Alameda, CA., 1987- 1996
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 1972-1983
Awards
2011 ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award
2008 Benezet Award, The Colorado College
2004 Elected to CHI Academy (ACM SIGCHI)
1999 Rigo Award for lifetime contributions to Computer Documentation (ACM SIGDOC)
1996 Founders Award, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
1987 Understanding Computers and Cognition named as the Best Information Science Book of 1987 by American Society for Information Science.
1986 Honorary D.Sc., The Colorado College.
1977 Mellon Junior Faculty Fellowship.
1977 Dean's award for excellence in teaching, Stanford.
National Offices
President, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, 1987-1990
National Board, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, 1984-1996
National Board, Bend The Arc Jewish Justice, 2016-2023
National Board, Corporate Accountability, 2019-present
Memberships
Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE, ACM Special Interest Group on Computers and Society, ACM SIGCHI.
Selected Publications (see full publications list)
Books
Bringing Design to Software, Addison-Wesley, 1996.
with Paul Adler (eds.), Usability: Turning Technologies Into Tools, New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
with Fernando Flores, Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design, (220 pp.) Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1986. Paperback issued by Addison-Wesley, 1987, translations published in Italian, Spanish, German, French and Japanese.
Language as a Cognitive Process: Volume I: Syntax , (650 pp.) Reading MA: Addison-Wesley, 1983.
Understanding Natural Language , (191 pp.) New York: Academic Press, 1972. Also published in Cognitive Psychology , 3:1 (1972), pp. 1--191.
Articles
Page, Lawrence; Brin, Sergey; Motwani, Rajeev; Winograd, Terry, The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web (1998) Stanford Digital Libraries SIDL-WP-1999-0120
"Thinking machines: Can there be? Are We?," in James Sheehan and Morton Sosna, eds., The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Reprinted in D. Partridge and Y. Wilks, The Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990.
"Strategic computing research and the universities," in D. Schuler and J. Jacky, eds., Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing, Norwood NJ: Ablex, 1989, pp. 18-32.
"A language/action perspective on the design of cooperative work," Human-Computer Interaction 3:1, 1987-88, pp. 3-30. Reprinted in Greif, Irene (Ed.), Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: A Book of Readings, San Mateo, California: Morgan-Kaufmann, 1988, 623--653.
"What does it mean to understand language?," Cognitive Science 4:3 (July-Sept 1980) 209--242. Reprinted in D. Norman (ed.), Perspectives on Cognitive Science , Ablex and Erlbaum Associates, 1981, 231--264.