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AI: Expert Systems Pioneer Meeting, day 1 session 1: Purpose, structure and introductions

This transcript from Day 1, Session 1 of the AI Expert Systems Pioneer Meeting includes short biographies from each of the meeting participants. Moderators Burton Grad and David Brock also give an overview of the meeting’s schedule and introduce the topic: the development of expert systems research and technology from the 1960s through the 1990s. Day 1 will focus on the early era, from 1955 to 1985, as well as on the business side. Day 2 will focus on how expert systems and derivative technologies were applied and what the applications were. The meeting will conclude with a discussion of the decline of the industry in the late 1990s. The participants talk about the different approaches and technologies that came out of this period and about what was happening and why.

Item Details

Date
2018-05-14 (Made)
Type
Document
Catalogue number
102781121
Organization
Computer History Museum (Publisher)
People
Hansen Hsu (Speaker)
Avron Barr (Speaker)
Edward Feigenbaum (Speaker)
Burt Grad (Moderator)
David Grier (Speaker)
Thomas Haigh (Speaker)
Paul Harmon (Speaker)
Gary G. Hendrix (Speaker)
Len Shustek (Speaker)
Douglas B. Lenat (Speaker)
Paul McJones (Speaker)
Peter Norvig (Speaker)
David Hemmendinger (Speaker)
Peter Hart (Speaker)
Dan'l Lewin (Speaker)
David C. Brock (Moderator)
Cheryl Baltes (Editor)
Herb Schorr (Speaker)
Alain Rappaport (Speaker)
Peter Friedland (Speaker)
Brian McCune (Speaker)
Brad Allen (Speaker)
Ed Lahay (Speaker)
Denny Brown (Speaker)
Mark Fox (Speaker)
Fritz Kunze (Speaker)
Reid Smith (Speaker)
Monte Zweben (Speaker)
Stephanie Dick (Speaker)
Colin Garvey (Speaker)
Category
Transcript
Format
PDF
Credit line
Computer History Museum
Extent
30 p.
Place of publication
North America/USA/CA/Mountain View
Language
English
Acquisition number
X8652.2018
Subject
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer Software, Expert Systems, Software Industry, Natural Language Processing
Archive collection
CHM Oral History Collection
Archive hierarchy
AI: Expert Systems Pioneer Meeting