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AI: Expert Systems Pioneer Meeting, day 1 session 4: Business reviews for initial companies

<p>This transcript from Session 4 of the AI Expert Systems Pioneer Meeting covers the developments in the AI and expert systems field in the 1980s and 1990s and includes short histories of five companies founded during this period: Advanced Decision Systems (ADS) and its spinoff Verity, AI Corporation, Carnegie Group, Teknowledge, and MCC. The company founders explain how and when each was founded, list their primary products and services, and discuss their main sources of funding and revenue. This session also includes an in-depth discussion on the benefits and drawbacks of LISP development environments, programming, machines, and products. The participants explore if and how the use of LISP affected the growth of expert systems companies. The discussion also covers the US National Cooperative Research Act (NCRA) and its effect on the expert systems research.</p>

Item Details

Date
2018-05-14 (Made)
Type
Document
Catalogue number
102781124
Organization
Computer History Museum (Publisher)
People
Dan'l Lewin (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)
Edward LaHay (Speaker)
Peter Norvig (Speaker)
David Hemmendinger (Speaker)
Peter Hart (Speaker)
David C. Brock (Moderator)
Hansen Hsu (Speaker)
Cheryl Baltes (Editor)
Herb Schorr (Speaker)
Alain Rappaport (Speaker)
Peter Friedland (Speaker)
Brian McCune (Speaker)
Brad Allen (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
39 p.
Place of publication
North America/USA/CA/Mountain View
Language
English
Acquisition number
X8652.2018
Subject
Advanced Decision Systems (ADS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), LISP, Intuit, Carnegie Mellon University, Expert Systems
Archive collection
CHM Oral History Collection
Archive hierarchy
AI: Expert Systems Pioneer Meeting