Textbook of AI

1935–2017, AI researcher at MIT and Xerox PARC

Daniel G. Bobrow was an American AI researcher whose 1964 MIT PhD thesis produced STUDENT, a program that solved high-school algebra word problems by parsing English sentences into systems of equations. STUDENT could handle problems like "If the number of advertisements is twenty per cent greater than the number of pages, how many advertisements are there?", an impressive demonstration of constrained natural-language understanding for its time.

Bobrow later moved to Xerox PARC, where he co-developed the KRL knowledge representation language (with Terry Winograd, 1976), worked on early object-oriented systems, and contributed to Smalltalk's design. He was president of AAAI (1989–1991) and a long-time editor of the journal Artificial Intelligence.