Claim · 1977 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Feigenbaum (1977) states that he simplified Michie's phrase 'epistemological engineering' into 'knowledge engineering'.

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The Art of Artificial Intelligence: I. Themes and case studies of knowledge engineering → explicitly credits → Edward A. Feigenbaum

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The Art of Artificial Intelligence: I. Themes and case studies of knowledge engineeringexplicitly credits ↓Edward A. Feigenbaum

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Date: 1977 · publication Records dated 1977 →

Scope and limitsSelf-attribution in an author's own account; not resolved here. Same passage as the credit to Michie.

The evidence 01

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The Art of Artificial Intelligence: I. Themes and case studies of knowledge engineering

IJCAI (proceedings host) · 1977

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Source excerpt

“a clever but ponderous and unpronounceable turn-of-phrase that I simplified into "knowledge engineering."

Location in source PDF p. 4, bracketed historical note

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Source details and check notes

Authors: Edward A. Feigenbaum
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 a8f31f43704a5e1ed30ed3ec3dc68c1c3df6634f773771a7cfecdb871e667267). Proceedings PDF as hosted by ijcai.org (IJCAI 1977, pp. 1014–1028); text layer noisy in places
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Edward A. Feigenbaum, “The Art of Artificial Intelligence: I. Themes and case studies of knowledge engineering”, 1977.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The quotation (13 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (31 October 2026, item 94) re-read the record’s sources and found that they support what the record states. No human editorial review.

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