Daniel G. Bobrow

Daniel Gureasko Bobrow (29 November 1935 to 20 March 2017) was an American computer scientist who created the widely cited artificial intelligence program STUDENT for his PhD, worked at BBN Technologies where he helped develop TENEX, and later became a Research Fellow at the Intelligent Systems Laboratory of the Palo Alto Research Center. He earned his PhD in mathematics from MIT under Marvin Minsky in 1964, was president of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, chair of the Cognitive Science Society and editor-in-chief of the journal Artificial Intelligence, and shared the 1992 ACM Software System Award for his work on Interlisp. He was an ACM Fellow and an AAAI Fellow.