Daniel G. Bobrow

American computer scientist

Daniel Gureasko Bobrow (29 November 1935 – 20 March 2017) was an American computer scientist who created an oft-cited artificial intelligence program STUDENT, with which he earned his PhD., worked at BBN Technologies (BBN), then was a Research Fellow in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory of the Palo Alto Research Center.²

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Born Nov 29, 1935, died Mar 20, 2017.¹

About

Born in New York City, he earned his BS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1957, SM from Harvard in 1958, and PhD in mathematics from MIT under the supervision of Marvin Minsky in 1964. At BBN, he was a developer of TENEX.

Bobrow was the president of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), chair of the Cognitive Science Society, Editor-in-chief of the journal Artificial Intelligence. He shared the 1992 ACM Software System Award with five other PARC scientists (Richard R. Burton, L. Peter Deutsch, Ronald Kaplan, Larry Masinter, and Warren Teitelman) for his work on Interlisp. He was an ACM Fellow and a AAAI fellow.

From Wikipedia’s article on Daniel G. Bobrow, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

Association for the Advancement of Artificial IntelligenceChair 1989 to 1991¹⁶

Early life and education

Date not recordedRensselaer Polytechnic Institute³
Date not recordedMassachusetts Institute of Technology³
Date not recordedHarvard University³

Career

Occupation: engineer, computer scientist.⁷

1989 to 1991Chair, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence⁶
1972 to 2017Worked at Palo Alto Research Center^{4 5}
Date not recordedWorked at BBN Technologies⁴

Personal life

BornNov 29, 1935, New York City⁸
DiedMar 20, 2017, Palo Alto^{9 10}
CitizenshipUnited States¹¹

Awards

1994ACM Fellow^{12 15}
1992ACM Software System Award for Interlisp^{12 14}
1990AAAI Fellow^{12 13}

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