Mycin: computer-based medical consultations

By Edward H. Shortliffe. 1976

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Citations in the corpus

• Explanation in Human-AI Systems: A Literature Meta-Review, Synopsis of Key Ideas and Publications, and Bibliography for Explainable AI (2019, background): “This first-generation began in the late 1970s (e.g., Shortliffe, 1976), and continued for about a decade.”
• An overview of KRL, a Knowledge Representation Language (1976, methodology): “…in progress) are: a simple cryptarithmetic problem solver NOAH (Sacerdoti, 1975); the Rutgers action understander, BELIEVER (Schmidt, 1975); MYaN (Shortliffe, 1976), a simple medical advice system; a more complex .medical reasoner, perhaps CASNET (Kulikowski, 1974) or a diagnosis program…”
• Knowledge based engineering: Between AI and CAD. Review of a language based technology to support engineering design (2012, background): “‘‘Help-on-line’’, planning/ scheduling systems and diagnostic tools represent just some of the commodity KBSs of daily use [11,23,28–30].”