blocks world
A simulated table-top environment of colored blocks used to test AI planning, language understanding, and reasoning in a controlled setting.
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SHRDLU Natural Language Understanding Program Developed by Terry Winograd at MIT
In 1970, Terry Winograd at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology completed SHRDLU, a natural language understanding program that allowed a user to converse in English about a simulated world of coloured blocks, demonstrating that a computer could parse and respond to complex grammatical instructions within a constrained domain.