The Art of Artificial Intelligence: I. Themes and case studies of knowledge engineering
Edward A. Feigenbaum, “The Art of Artificial Intelligence: I. Themes and case studies of knowledge engineering”. Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Cambridge, MA), pp. 1014–1028 (published 1977).
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- Donald MichieFeigenbaum (1977) writes that when he described the DENDRAL program to Donald Michie in 1968, Michie called it 'epistemological engineering', a phrase Feigenbaum says he simplified into 'knowledge engineering'.1977 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Donald Michie: person page →
- Edward A. FeigenbaumFeigenbaum (1977) states that he simplified Michie's phrase 'epistemological engineering' into 'knowledge engineering'.1977 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗Edward A. Feigenbaum: person page →
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- Symbolic AI and expert systemsFeigenbaum (1977) defines the knowledge engineer's practice as bringing the principles and tools of AI research to bear on difficult application problems that require experts' knowledge.1977 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗
- Symbolic AI and expert systemsFeigenbaum (1977) states that the power of an intelligent agent's performance comes primarily from the specialist's knowledge it employs and only secondarily from the generality of its inference method.1977 · publication · Stated in source · Supported Inspect claim & evidence ↗
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- StatementDENDRAL project begun in 1965 with Lederberg and Buchanan“My collaborators (Professors Lederberg and Buchanan) and I began a series of projects, initially the development of the DENDRAL program, in 1965.”PDF p. 4, section 3Inspect claim & evidence ↗
- StatementMYCIN originated in E. Shortliffe's Ph.D. thesis (Shortliffe, 1976)“MYCIN originated in the Ph.D. thesis of E. Shortliffe (now Shortliffe, M.D. as well), in collaboration with the Infectious Disease group at the Stanford Medical School (Shortliffe, 1976)”PDF p. 8, section 3.3.1Inspect claim & evidence ↗