Daniel Gureasko Bobrow (29 November 1935 – 20 March 2017) was an American computer scientist who created an oft-cited

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program

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, with which he earned his PhD., worked at

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(BBN), then was a Research Fellow in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory of the

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. Born in

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, he earned his BS from RPI in 1957, SM from Harvard in 1958, and PhD in Mathematics from

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under the supervision of

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in 1964. At BBN, he was a developer of TENEX. Bobrow was the president of the

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(AAAI), chair of the

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, Editor-in-chief of the journal

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. He shared the 1992 ACM Software System Award with five other PARC scientists (

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, L. Peter Deutsch,

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, and

Warren Teitelman Warren Teitelman (1941 – August 12, 2013) was an American computer scientist known for his work on programming environments and the invention and first implementation of concepts including Undo / Redo, spelling correction, advising, online help ...

) for his work on

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. He was an

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and a

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