AI: Expert Systems Pioneer Meeting, day 2 session 7: Why did the expert systems industry decline?

This transcript from Day 2, Session 7 of the AI Expert Systems Pioneer Meeting covers the final years of the AI and expert systems industry in the late 1990s. Following a brief history of the Computer History Museum itself, the participants discuss possible reasons that the expert systems industry and most of its companies failed to thrive in the long run and why so few still exist today. Possible and partial reasons include business management approaches, company revenue models, the lack of expert systems standards, and the complexity of expert systems solutions. The discussion also continues to explore how AI and expert systems technologies have evolved and been absorbed into existing products and services. Examples include rule-based systems, enterprise search, business rules, and knowledge-based systems.

Item Details

Date: 2018-05-15 (Made)
Type: Document
Catalogue number: 102781127
Organization: Computer History Museum (Publisher)
People: David C. Brock (Moderator)
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)
David Hemmendinger (Speaker)
Peter Hart (Speaker)
Hansen Hsu (Speaker)
Cheryl Baltes (Editor)
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: PDF
Credit line: Computer History Museum
Extent: 41 p.
Place of publication: North America/USA/CA/Mountain View
Language: English
Acquisition number: X8652.2018
Subject: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Expert Systems, Knowledge Engineering
Archive collection: CHM Oral History Collection
Archive hierarchy: AI: Expert Systems Pioneer Meeting