Daniel G. bobrow is a Research Fellow in the Systems and Practices Laboratory of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, and manager of an area that is engaged in a number of projects investigating the support of Knowledge Work. These include: Pueblo, a school centered community supported by a multi-user virtual world; Smart Service, providing flexible, personal thinking style and context sensitive display of information for Service Technicians, and support for leveraging the learning of individuals in the field; and model-based computing, using models of designed devices to support human communication about their design, and automatic generation of programs to control those devices.

Bobrow received his Ph. D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he produced one of the first theses in the then newly formed Artificial Intelligence Project, headed by Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy. He has published over fifty papers and written/edited five books on a number of technical subjects, ranging programming languages and operating systems, to artificial intelligence, cognitive science and collaborative systems. He is the recipient of the ACM Programming Language and Systems Best Paper award, the ACM Software Systems Award, and the IJCAI Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award. He is editor-in-chief of the international journal, Artificial Intelligence. A former president of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and Chair of the Cognitive Science Society, Bobrow is a fellow of both the AAAI and the ACM.