AI: Expert Systems Pioneer Meeting, day 2 session 5: Business reviews for later companies
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.
Item Details
- Date
- 2018-05-15 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102781125
- Organization
- Computer History Museum (Publisher)
- People
- David C. Brock (Speaker)
Edward Feigenbaum (Speaker)
Burt Grad (Speaker)
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)
David Hemmendinger (Speaker)
Peter Hart (Speaker)
Hansen Hsu (Speaker)
Cheryl Baltes (Speaker)
Herb Schorr (Speaker)
Alain Rappaport (Speaker)
Peter Friedland (Speaker)
Brian McCune (Speaker)
Brad Allen (Speaker)
Denny Brown (Speaker)
Fritz Kunze (Speaker)
Reid Smith (Speaker)
Stephanie Dick (Speaker)
Colin Garvey (Speaker) - Category
- Transcript
- Format
- Credit line
- Computer History Museum
- Extent
- 33 p.
- Place of publication
- North America/USA/CA/Mountain View
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X8652.2018
- Subject
- Knowledge Engineering, Advanced Decision Systems (ADS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Syntelligence, Accenture, Expert Systems
- Archive collection
- CHM Oral History Collection
- Archive hierarchy
- AI: Expert Systems Pioneer Meeting