Daniel G. Bobrow
Daniel Gureasko Bobrow was an American computer scientist who created an oft-cited artificial intelligence program STUDENT, with which he earned his PhD., worked at BBN Technologies, then was a Research Fellow in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory of the Palo Alto Research Center.
Born in New York City, he earned his BS from RPI 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, chair of the Cognitive Science Society, Editor-in-chief of the journal Artificial Intelligence. He shared the 1992 ACM Software Systems Award for his work on Interlisp. He was an ACM Fellow and an AAAI fellow.
