Daniel G. Bobrow: In Memoriam

Daniel G. Bobrow (1935-2017) was a research fellow at Xerox's Palo Alto Bobrow was born in 1935 in New York City. AAI Fellow and AAAI past-president Daniel G. attended the Bronx School of Science along with Danny completed his Ph.D. dissertation in 1964 at the The thesis described STUDENT, a revolutionary program that could solve algebra word problems stated in English as found in highschool algebra textbooks. Danny's was one the first theses on natural language understanding -- a topic that would remain a central interest of his throughout his long career. He also was one of the first students at what would later become the MIT AI Lab. The technical report describing his thesis was the first in a series of illustrious research results: Project MAC technical report: MAC-TR-1.