A landmark natural-language program, completed in 1970, that integrates the previously independent functions of reasoning, syntax, and semantics. It performed remarkably well in its own small domain of children's books.

An early artificially intelligent machine that was meant to simulate language processing in humans.

The first word in the phrase shrdlu winograd maclisp teletype, an example SOAP request in documentation of the GoogleSearch Web service. Altova XMLSpy® 2006 and MapForce® 2006 provide powerful tools for defining and building Web services, or interacting with an existing Web service such as GoogleSearch, in a graphical manner. SHRDLU is also a program for understanding natural language written by Terry Winograd and described in his dissertation, which was published as MIT AI Technical Report 235, February 1971, in the journal Cognitive Psychology Vol. 3 No 1, 1972, and as a book, Understanding Natural Language (Academic Press, 1972). SHRDLU was written by Winograd in MacLisp (no, not on an Apple computer -- note the date) and allowed a human to converse with a computer via a teletype. For more information on Google Web services, visit the Google Web APIs page.