# HG changeset patch # User Henry Thompson # Date 1731967106 0 # Node ID ff910d6ad9a2e09dc63c0902f45641e7d1cbc171 # Parent 206f4ebc817c80d8aa4473db9aa4e8a421238678 positions diff -r 206f4ebc817c -r ff910d6ad9a2 CR_preface.txt --- a/CR_preface.txt Mon Nov 18 14:42:31 2024 +0000 +++ b/CR_preface.txt Mon Nov 18 21:58:26 2024 +0000 @@ -312,7 +312,25 @@ In 1977 Terry Winograd, who had left MIT to join the Computer Science Lab at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), invited Smith to -spend the summer in the Understander Group there, where he joined the -in the development of KRL, a Knowledge Representation Language, which +spend the summer in the Understander Group there, where he joined in +the development of KRL, a Knowledge Representation Language, which came to embody some of the ideas that were developed in his Masters and PhD dissertations. + +These biographical details bring us to the brink of Smith's +professional life, wherein the point made above about multiple +allegiances can be succinctly summarized by a list of the positions he +has occupied: Director, Xerox PARC System Sciences Lab; Adjunct +Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University; Founding +member of Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information; Founding +member and first president, Computer Professionals for Social +Responsibility; President of the Society for Philosophy and +Psychology; Professor of Cognitive Science, Computer Science, and +Philosophy, Indiana University; Kimberly J. Jenkins University +Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and New Technologies, Duke +University; Dean of the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto; +Professor of Information, Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and the +History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of +Toronto; Senior Fellow, Massey College, University of Toronto; Reid +Hoffman Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Human, University +of Toronto