Daniel G. Bobrow

Daniel Bobrow Gureasko ( born November 29, 1935 in New York City ) is an American computer scientist.

Life

Bobrow studied at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Bachelor 1957) and Harvard University ( Master's degree 1958) and in 1964 in Marvin Minsky at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT ) PhD in Mathematics ( Natural language input for a computer problem solving system). Subject of the dissertation was a student, an AI program which had the objective formulated in natural spoken language to understand basic computing tasks and solve problems. It was later widely quoted as a pioneering work in AI. 1964/65 he was Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT. From 1962 he worked at Bolt, Beranek and Newman ( BBN ), where he was Vice President in 1965 and 1969, director of the computer science department. From 1972, he worked as a scientist at Xerox PARC research center of Xerox in Palo Alto. He is also a lecturer at Stanford University.

With colleagues, he developed at BBN, and thereafter at Xerox Parc, the Lisp implementation of Interlisp. For this he received with others in 1992 ACM Software Systems Award. He also worked on object-oriented Lisp extensions such as Common Lisp Object System.

He continues to conduct research in AI systems in a natural language environment, for example the aquaint (Advanced Question Answering for Intelligence) program in the 2000s. Another research focus is on community knowledge systems such as Eureka, which supports Xerox technician for repairs and service work on site.

1972/73 he was a Fulbright Fellow. He was temporarily President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence ( AAAI ), Chief of the Cognitive Science Society, and from 1977 to 2001 editor of the journal Artificial Intelligence. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM ) and the AAAI. In 1974 he received the Award of the ACM Programming Language.