Title
AI: Expert Systems Pioneer Meeting, day 2 session 5: Business reviews for later companies
Catalog Number
102781125
Type
Document
Description
This transcript from Session 5 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 the final three companies founded during this period: CyCorp (a spinoff of MCC), Syntelligence, and Neuron Data. 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 has an extended discussion on how CyCorp and its Cyc technology differed from other companies during this era. The discussion also briefly covers the importance of expert systems and AI terminology as well as competition among the various expert systems companies.
Date
2018-05-15
Contributor
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Allen, Brad, Speaker
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Baltes, Cheryl, Speaker
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Brock, David C., Speaker
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Brown, Denny, Speaker
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Dick, Stephanie, Speaker
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Feigenbaum, Edward, Speaker
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Friedland, Peter, Speaker
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Garvey, Colin, Speaker
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Grad, Burt, Speaker
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Grier, David, Speaker
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Haigh, Thomas, Speaker
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Harmon, Paul, Speaker
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Hart, Peter, Speaker
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Hemmendinger, David, Speaker
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Hendrix, Gary G., Speaker
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Hsu, Hansen, Speaker
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Kunze, Fritz, Speaker
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LaHay, Edward, Speaker
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Lenat, Douglas B., Speaker
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McCune, Brian, Speaker
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McJones, Paul, Speaker
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Rappaport, Alain, Speaker
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Schorr, Herb, Speaker
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Shustek, Len, Speaker
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Smith, Reid, Speaker
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
Mountain View, CA
Extent
33 p.
Format
PDF
Category
Transcription
Subject
Accenture; Advanced Decision Systems (ADS); Agent-Based Reasoning; Artificial intelligence (AI); AI companies; AI Winter; Cyc; Cycorp; End user experience systems; Expert systems; Functional programming languages; Inference engine; Knowledge engineering; Neuron Data; Nexpert; Symbolic AI; Syntelligence
Collection Title
AI: Expert Systems Pioneer Meeting
Credit
Computer History Museum
