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 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, 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 for his work on Interlisp. He was an ACM Fellow and a AAAI fellow.