Word: feigenbaum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Digital Equipment Corp. and E.I. du Pont de Nemours. They and others are using second-wave technology not only to bring computers to bear on problems that until now have been bypassed by the information revolution but also to extend the range and availability of human expertise. Says Edward Feigenbaum, an AI pioneer and co-author of a | forthcoming book on second-wave success stories: "Every system we have looked at improved productivity by more than an order of magnitude -- that's like the difference between a car and a jet plane...
...resisted automation. No one, however, was going to build expert systems if they took several years to construct. Solution: create a Mycin without medical knowledge -- in effect, construct an empty shell into which programmers could pour all kinds of different expertise. In 1977 a team of Stanford researchers under Feigenbaum dubbed the new shell Emycin (for Empty Mycin) and used it to build several more expert systems. Emycin spurred a number of start-up companies, led by AI entrepreneurs like Feigenbaum, to build knowledge shells for the commercial market...
...Feigenbaum, vice president for engineering and quality programs for New Hampshire Yankee. Seabrook's builder, disputed DeMarco's suggestion...
...People do not panic in an emergency. People pull together," Feigenbaum said. He also dismissed the Hampton officers' conclusion that the evacuation plan is unworkable. He said the beaches can be evacuated. "It's done every weekend afternoon," Feigenbaum said...
...volatile computer business, this is a revolutionary program. A machine that could achieve any one of Fuchi's goals would achieve instant market success. A family of Japanese computers capable of all these tasks would threaten U.S. dominance in its most promising technology. Stanford's Feigenbaum observes, "The U.S. is squandering its lead at the rate...