Expert systems (DENDRAL, MYCIN)
Sistemas expertos (DENDRAL, MYCIN)
- Date
- 1965-1972 · confidence high
- Place
- Stanford University, California, United States
- Credited to
- Edward Feigenbaum, Joshua Lederberg and Bruce Buchanan (DENDRAL); Edward Shortliffe (MYCIN)
- People
- 👤 Bruce Buchanan👤 Edward Feigenbaum1936–👤 Edward H. Shortliffe1947–👤 Joshua Lederberg1925–2008
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Programs that encode an expert's knowledge as if-then rules to diagnose infections or identify molecules. They were the first commercial AI in the 1980s.
What it led to
- The AI industry of the 1980s and its collapse (second winter)
- Clinical decision-support systems
- Knowledge engineering and ontologies
Built on
Made possible
- clinical decision support systems
- business rules engines