Daniel Gureasko Bobrow (born 1935) is a Research Fellow in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory of the Palo Alto Research Center, and is amongst other things known for creating an oft-cited artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...

 program STUDENT

STUDENT (computer program)

STUDENT is an early artificial intelligence program that solves algebra word problems. It is written in Lisp by Daniel G Bobrow as his PhD thesis in 1964 . It was designed to read and solve the kind of word problems found in high school algebra books...

, with which he earned his PhD.

He earned his BS from RPI

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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 in 1957, SM from Harvard in 1958, and PhD in Mathematics from MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 under the supervision of Marvin Minsky

Marvin Minsky

Marvin Lee Minsky is an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence , co-founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy.-Biography:...

 in 1964.

Bobrow was the President of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence

American Association for Artificial Intelligence

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence or AAAI is an international, nonprofit, scientific society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines...

 (AAAI), chair of the Cognitive Science Society

Cognitive Science Society

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, Editor-in-chief of the journal Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (journal)

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. He shared the 1992 ACM Software Systems Award for his work on Interlisp

Interlisp

Interlisp was a programming environment built around a version of the Lisp programming language. Interlisp development began in 1967 at Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Cambridge, Massachusetts as BBN LISP, which ran on PDP-10 machines running the TENEX operating system...

.
He is an ACM

Association for Computing Machinery

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 fellow and an AAAI fellow.