Claim · 1984 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Buchanan and Shortliffe (1984) attribute the term 'knowledge engineering', 'to the best of our knowledge', to Edward Feigenbaum, after Donald Michie's phrase 'epistemological engineering'.

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Rule-Based Expert Systems: The MYCIN Experiments of the Stanford Heuristic Programming Project → explicitly credits → Edward A. Feigenbaum

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Rule-Based Expert Systems: The MYCIN Experiments of the Stanford Heuristic Programming Projectexplicitly credits ↓Edward A. Feigenbaum

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Date: 1984 · publication Records dated 1984 →

Scope and limitsAttributed statement, hedged by its authors ('to the best of our knowledge'); not resolved here. Recorded side by side with Feigenbaum (1977).

The evidence 01

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Chapter 1, The Context of the MYCIN Experiments

shortliffe.net (host); Addison Wesley (publisher) · 1984

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The footnote states that the term 'knowledge engineering' was, to the best of the authors' knowledge, 'coined' by Edward Feigenbaum after Donald Michie's phrase 'epistemological engineering', and that, like 'expert system' and 'knowledge-based system', it did not come into general use until about 1975.

Location in source PDF p. 5, footnote 1

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Authors: Bruce G. Buchanan; Edward H. Shortliffe
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 0a2b9b6ae3e73178f58502a72ec997aa1c4b390a8fe4e9b69e193279f8224b94). Chapter PDF from the host; the text layer drops many word spaces
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Bruce G. Buchanan, Edward H. Shortliffe, “Chapter 1, The Context of the MYCIN Experiments”, 1984.
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