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From: jbarnett@nrtc.northrop.com (Jeff Barnett)
Subject: Re: What was the first real Expert System?
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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 20:48:01 GMT
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In article <32DB5341.6BD3@baan.nl>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Corn=E9?= Koelewijn <ckoelewijn@baan.nl> writes:
|> Hello,
|> 
|> After doing some research in AI for a presentation, there is this one
|> question unanswered: =
|> 
|> 
|> What was the first Expert System? Or:
|> Who came up with the word Expert System?
|> 
|> I thought that the General Problem Solver was the first, but I am not
|> sure about it.

I'm not sure if GPS would be called an expert system -- typical
connotation is that of deep, ad hoc knowledge simulated in a
narrow domain.  The "G" in GPS says this isn't an expert system,
though it might be called a knowledge-based or AI system, what
ever those terms might mean.

I think one very early candidate might be Dendral -- Fiegenbaum as
hacker and Lederberg as domain expert -- a system that reasons about
molecular structures from spectragram data.  I think this system
appeared in the early 1960's but can't swear to an exact date.

Jeff Barnett
