1975 ⟶ Meta-Dendral Produces New Chemistry Results

The Meta-Dendral learning program produced new results in ch...
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🧪 Dendral: Expert System for Molecular Structure

Edward Feigenbaum initiated Dendral, a ten-year effort to develop software to deduce the molecular structure of organic compounds using scientific instrument data. It was the first Expert system.⟶
Dendral: Expert System for Molecular Structure (1965)
Expert SystemsKnowledge-Based SystemsStanford UniversityFeigenbaumMolecular StructureScientific ReasoningEarly AIDendral
United StatesUnited States

🔬 Dendral Program Interprets Mass Spectra

Dendral program (Edward Feigenbaum, Joshua Lederberg, Bruce Buchanan, Georgia Sutherland at Stanford University) demonstrated to interpret mass spectra on organic chemical compounds. First successful knowledge-based program for scientific reasoning.⟶
Dendral Program Interprets Mass Spectra (1966)
Expert SystemsKnowledge-Based SystemsStanford UniversityScientific ReasoningChemistryFeigenbaumDendral
United StatesUnited States

🩺 Shortliffe's MYCIN Program Demonstrates Rule-Based Medical Diagnosis

Ted Shortliffe's PhD dissertation on the MYCIN program (Stanford) demonstrated a very practical rule-based approach to medical diagnoses, even in the presence of uncertainty. While it borrowed from DENDRAL, its own contributions strongly influenced the future of Expert system development, especially commercial systems.⟶
Shortliffe's MYCIN Program Demonstrates Rule-Based Medical Diagnosis (1974)
Expert SystemsMYCINMedical DiagnosisRule-Based SystemsTed ShortliffeStanfordAI in Healthcare
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🧪 Meta-Dendral Produces New Chemistry Results

The Meta-Dendral learning program produced new results in Chemistry (some rules of Mass spectrometry) the first scientific discoveries by a computer to be published in a refereed journal.⟶
Meta-Dendral Produces New Chemistry Results (1975)
Expert SystemsChemistryScientific DiscoveryMachine LearningRule-based SystemsMeta-DendralStanford University
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🧠 Randall Davis Demonstrates Meta-Level Reasoning

Randall Davis demonstrated the power of meta-level reasoning in his PhD dissertation at Stanford.⟶
ReasoningMeta-reasoningKnowledge RepresentationArtificial IntelligencePhD DissertationRandall DavisStanford University
USAUSA

📐 Tom Mitchell Invented Version Spaces

Tom Mitchell, at Stanford, invented the concept of Version spaces for describing the search space of a concept formation program.⟶
Tom Mitchell Invented Version Spaces (1978)
Concept LearningVersion SpacesMachine LearningSearchTom MitchellStanford University
USAUSA