PROFILE:
Danny Bobrow
Daniel G. Bobrow is a Research Fellow at PARC. He has also been President of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Editor-in-chief of the journal Artificial Intelligence, recipient of the ACM Software Systems Award, and a fellow of both the ACM and AAAI.
Danny was a lead in the PARC-Xerox Eureka project, one of the most successful fielded examples of a community knowledge sharing system. Eureka supports 20,000 Xerox service technicians in capturing, validating, and sharing their experience, with a current knowledge base of over 90,000 tips. Prior to that, Danny wrote one of the first MIT doctoral theses in Artificial Intelligence on natural language question answering, and is currently working on a natural language-based, broad-coverage system for question answering. An earlier version of this technology was the basis for a successful PARC enabled spin-out. Bobrow is also exploring how encoded knowledge of a domain can lead to deeper understanding of texts, and how texts can be used as the basis for a machine to learn new skills from reading texts. Danny has over 100 published papers, books, and issued patents.
PARC publications
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2012
Placing qualitative reasoning in the design process
26th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning
16 July 2012
2011
English access to structured data
IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC)
19 September 2011
Communal knowledge sharing: the Eureka story
Chapter in Making work visible: ethnographically grounded case studies of work practice, edited by Margaret H. Szymanski and Jack Whalen
April 2011
Deducing answers to English questions from structured data
Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2011
16 February 2011
2010
Supporting rule-based representations with corpus-derived lexical information.
NAACL Learning by Reading Workshop
6 June 2010
2009
Linguistic processing for access to implicit content
Machine Reading, DARPA kickoff meeting
10 August 2009
Learning by reading: normalizing complex linguistic structures onto a knowledge representation
AAAI Symposium 2009
23 March 2009
2008
2007
Precision-focused textual inference
ACL-PASCAL Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing
28 June 2007
2005
A basic logic for textual inference
Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Inference for Textual Question Answering
9 July 2005
2004
What a to-do: studies of task management towards the design of a personal task list manager
CHI 2004
24 April 2004
2003
Model-based computing for design and control of reconfigurable systems
AI Magazine, Special Issue on Qualitative Reasoning
Winter 2003
Knowledge tracking: answering implicit questions
AAAI Spring Symposium 2003 on New Directions in Question Answering
27 March 2003
2002
Scalability of redundancy detection in focused document collections
First International Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding (SCANALU 2002)
23 May 2002
Making ontologies work for resolving redundancies across documents
Communications of the ACM
1 February 2002
Community knowledge sharing in practice: the Eureka story
Reflections, the Journal of the Society for Organizational Learning
1 January 2002
2001
Proceedings of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS-2001)
17 October 2001
Paper intermedium: using paper to support interactive educational experiences
IEEE Computer
March 2001
2000
Knowledge ecologies - introduction
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
4 January 2000
1999
Future of technology trends and impact on learning
NIST Adaptive Learning Systems Workshop
17 November 1999
Applications of artificial intelligence (Editorial)
Artificial Intelligence - Special Issue on Applications of Artificial Intelligence
October 1999
Model-based computing: developing flexible machine control software
Artificial Intelligence
October 1999
1998
Moving practice: from classrooms to MOO rooms
Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing
March 1998
Network community design: a social - technical design circle
Computer Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing
January 1998
1996
1995
Modeling time in hybrid systems: how fast is "instantaneous"?
Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-95)
20 August 1995
1994
1992
WYSIWIS revised: early experiences with multi-user interfaces
Readings in Groupware and Computer Supported Cooperative Work
1992
1991
1987
Searching beyond reason: a response to McDermott's 'Critique of Pure Reason'
Computational Intelligence
August 1987
WYSIWIS revised: early experiences with multi-user interfaces
ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems
April 1987
Beyond the chalkboard: computer support for collaboration and problem solving in meetings
Communications of the ACM
January 1987
1986
Integrating access-oriented programming into a multi-paradigm environment
IEEE Software
January 1986
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Silicon Valley tech innovator PARC celebrates 40th anniversary
29 September 2010 | LA Times
PARC celebrates its 40 years of Silicon Valley innovation
23 September 2010 | CNET News
Why machines do not understand human speech
9 April 2010 | BBC News
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DARPA and Applied Research Lab at Penn State Choose PARC to Advance Virtual Product Development and Digital Manufacturing
17 September 2012
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Placing Qualitative Reasoning in the Design Process
16 July 2012
From Quirky Case to Representing Space, An AnnieFest
5 October 2011 | Palo Alto, CA