Daniel G. Bobrow
Daniel Gureasko Bobrow(29 November 1935 – 20 March 2017) was an American computer scientist who created an oft-citedartificial intelligenceprogramSTUDENT,with which he earned his PhD.,[1][2][3]worked atBBN Technologies(BBN), then was a Research Fellow in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory of thePalo Alto Research Center.
Born inNew York City,he earned his BS fromRPIin 1957, SM fromHarvardin 1958, and PhD in mathematics fromMITunder the supervision ofMarvin Minskyin 1964. At BBN, he was a developer ofTENEX.[4][5]
Bobrow was the president of theAmerican Association for Artificial Intelligence(AAAI), chair of theCognitive Science Society,Editor-in-chief of the journalArtificial Intelligence.He shared the 1992 ACM Software System Award with five other PARC scientists (Richard R. Burton,L. Peter Deutsch,Ronald Kaplan,Larry Masinter,andWarren Teitelman) for his work onInterlisp.[6]He was anACM Fellowand aAAAIfellow.[7]
Further reading
[edit]- Rusty Bobrow (Daniel's brother), "Danny Bobrow: A Personal Recollection",AI Magazine38:4:85-86 (2017)full text
References
[edit]- ^Daniel Gureasko Bobrowat theMathematics Genealogy Project
- ^American Men and Women of Science,Thomson Gale,2004
- ^Daniel Bobrow Obituary
- ^Daniel G. Bobrow; Jerry D. Burchfiel;Daniel L. Murphy;Raymond S. Tomlinson(March 1972)."TENEX, A Paged Time Sharing System for the PDP-10".Communications of the ACM.15(3): 135–143.doi:10.1145/361268.361271.S2CID52848167.
- ^Thompson, Ken."Reflections on Trusting Trust".Archived fromthe originalon 2012-05-25.
- ^ACM Awards
- ^legacy.com
- 1935 births
- 2017 deaths
- American computer scientists
- Harvard University alumni
- Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
- Scientists at PARC (company)
- 1994 Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Presidents of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
- Lisp (programming language) people
- American computer specialist stubs