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XCON (R1) Expert System Developed by John P. McDermott at Carnegie Mellon University

John P. McDermott at Carnegie Mellon University developed R1 (later named XCON), a rule-based expert system built in OPS5, in collaboration with Digital Equipment Corporation. Deployed operationally by DEC in 1980, it automatically configured VAX-11/780 computer orders, replacing a labour-intensive manual process.