Eight years after John McCarthy coined the term artificial intelligence, Bobrow's dissertation (titled Natural Language Input for a Computer Problem Solving System) showed how a computer could understand simple natural language input to solve algebra word problems.
Delapan tahun berselang, John McCarthy baru mengadakan istilah kecerdasan buatan, disertasi Bobrow (yang berjudul Natural Language Input for a Computer Problem Solving System) menunjukkan bagaimana komputer dapat mengerti masukan bahasa alami biasa kepada memecahkan permasalahan aljabar pada pesan.