Patrick Winston: Difference between revisions

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| spouse = Karen Prendergast<ref>{{cite web|title=Professor Patrick Winston, former director of MIT’sMIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, dies at 76| date=19 July 2019 |url=https://news.mit.edu/2019/patrick-winston-professor-obituary-0719#:~:text=Outside%20of%20the%20lab%20he,Prendergast%20and%20his%20daughter%20Sarah.|publisher=MIT news|access-date=20 June 2020}}</ref>

After graduating from high school, Winston left East Peoria, a suburb of Peoria, IL, to come to MIT by train. He received his undergraduate degree from MIT in 1965, where he was a member of [[Phi Delta Theta]] fraternity, and went on to complete his Masters and PhD there as well, finalizing his PhD in 1970. Winston's thesis work with [[Marvin Minsky]] concerned the difficulty of learning; he concluded it was only possible to learn something one nearly already knows.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Winston|first1=Patrick|title=Learning Structural Descriptions from Examples|url=https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6884|url-status=live|access-date=Jan 15, 2022|website=DSpace (MIT Repository)|date=September 1970|publisher=MIT Project Mac TR from PhD dissertation|hdl=1721.1/6884}}</ref> His research interests included [[machine learning]] and [[human intelligence]]. Winston was known within the MIT community for his excellent teaching and strong commitment to supporting MIT undergraduate culture.<ref>{{cite web|last1=KnightSchaffer|first1=Amanda|last2=Knight|first2=Will|title=Patrick Winston '65, SM '67, PhD '70|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/21/133494/patrick-winston-65-sm-67-phd-70/|url-statusdate=liveAugust 21, 2019|access-date=Jan 14, 2022|website=MIT Technology Review}}</ref>

At MIT, Winston taught 6.034: Artificial Intelligence and 6.803/6.833: [[Human intelligence|Human Intelligence]] Enterprise. Winston's ''How to Speak'' talk was an MIT tradition for over 40 years. "Offered every January, the talk is intended to improve your speaking ability in critical situations by teaching you a few heuristic rules."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Winston|first1=Patrick|title=How to Speak|url=https://ocw.mit.edu/how_to_speak|url-status=live|website=MIT OpenCourseWare|language=en|accessdate=Aug 11, 2020}}</ref> A book with his insights and teachings on [[Communication theory|communication]] was published in 2020 by the MIT Press: "Make It Clear: Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Patrick|first=Winston|url=https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4874/Make-It-ClearSpeak-and-Write-to-Persuade-and|title=Make It Clear: Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform|publisher=The MIT Press|year=2020|isbn=9780262360395|language=en}}</ref>

* ''[[Artificial Intelligence (book)|Artificial Intelligence]]'' {{ISBN|0201533774}}

* ''[[Lisp (book)|Lisp]]'' (with [[Berthold K.P. Horn]]) {{ISBN|0201083191}}

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