HISTORY / 1965

DENDRAL and knowledge-based AI

The DENDRAL project used chemical knowledge and search to propose molecular structures from experimental data. It became an early example of a domain-specific expert system.

What happened next

The work helped establish knowledge engineering: collecting expert knowledge and using it in a program. Later expert systems used this approach in medicine, configuration and other fields.

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