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Stanford University School of Medicine

Medical school where the MYCIN expert system for diagnosing infectious diseases was developed in the 1970s.

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MYCIN: A Rule-Based Expert System for Infectious Disease Diagnosis, Developed at Stanford University

Beginning around 1972, Edward Shortliffe at Stanford University developed MYCIN, a rule-based expert system written in Lisp that used approximately 600 if-then rules to diagnose bacterial blood infections and recommend antibiotic treatments adjusted for patient body weight, establishing a widely studied model for clinical decision support.