Daniel G. Bobrow

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Daniel Gureasko Bobrow (born November 29, 1935 in New York City , † March 20, 2017 in Palo Alto , California ) was an American computer scientist .

Life

Bobrow studied at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Bachelor in 1957) and Harvard University (Master in 1958) and received his doctorate in mathematics ( Natural language input for a computer problem solving system ) under Marvin Minsky at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1964 . The subject of the dissertation was Student , an AI program that aimed to understand and solve elementary arithmetic problems formulated in natural colloquial language. It was later quoted many times as pioneering work in AI. 1964/65 he was assistant professor for electrical engineering at MIT. From 1962 he worked at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) , where he became vice president in 1965 and director of the IT department in 1969. From 1972 he worked as a scientist at the Xerox Parc research center of Xerox in Palo Alto . He is also a lecturer at Stanford University .

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

He continues to research AI systems in natural language environments, for example the AQUAINT (Advanced Question Answering for Intelligence) program in the 2000s. Another focus of research was community knowledge systems such as Eureka, which supports Xerox technicians with on-site repair and service work.

In the late 1960s he was one of the developers of Logo at BBN.

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

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ legacy.com , accessed April 5, 2017
  3. ↑ Gregor Kiczales, Jim of Rivieres and Daniel G. Bobrow: The Art of the MetaObject Protocol. MIT Press, Boston 1991
personal data
SURNAME Bobrow, Daniel G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bobrow, Daniel Gureasko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 20th March 2017
Place of death Palo Alto , California