As recently as a year ago, trade journal articles that discussed expert systems often carried a great deal of hyperbole and inflated claims. Many otherwise sophisticated technologists put expert-system techniques in the same category with such far-off ideas as orbiting missile defense systems and thinking machines.
Abstract: As recently as a year ago, trade journal articles that discussed expert systems often carried a great deal of hyperbole and inflated claims. Many otherwise sophisticated technologists put expert-system techniques in the same category with such far-off ideas as orbiting missile defense systems and thinking machines.