Dendral
1960s Stanford expert system for identifying chemical structures from mass spectrometry data; an early milestone in knowledge-based AI.
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Stanford Heuristic Programming Project founded by Edward Feigenbaum
In 1970, Edward Feigenbaum founded the Heuristic Programming Project (HPP) at Stanford University, establishing a dedicated research group to investigate the construction of knowledge-based expert systems and their application to scientific and medical domains.
DENDRAL Project, Stanford University
Beginning in 1965, Edward Feigenbaum, Bruce Buchanan, and Joshua Lederberg at Stanford University launched the DENDRAL project, a computer program designed to infer molecular structure from mass spectrometry data, becoming one of the earliest programs to encode specialist scientific knowledge as explicit rules.