AI milestones in 1977
1 documented milestone from 1977.
Meta-Level Knowledge in Expert Systems: Davis and Lenat's Formalisation at Stanford
In 1977, Randall Davis and Douglas Lenat at Stanford University published research formalising meta-level knowledge, a system's explicit representations of its own knowledge and reasoning strategies, and demonstrated its application in the MYCIN and AM expert systems to improve inference control and self-directed learning.