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28m41sHISTORY / 1974
MYCIN and medical expert systems
Stanford’s MYCIN project used rules to recommend treatments for bacterial infections. It also studied how a program could explain its recommendations and acquire new rules.
What happened next
MYCIN was a research system, not a general-purpose doctor. Its rule-based methods and explanation tools influenced later expert-system software. Clinical reliability and deployment required more than a successful research demonstration.
