Bruce G. Buchanan

Organizations

Major Achievements

• •Co-led DENDRAL, the first expert system, inferring molecular structures from mass spectrometry data.
• •Co-created MYCIN, the medical diagnosis system that introduced reasoning under uncertainty with certainty factors.
• •Established knowledge acquisition — getting expertise out of specialists and into rules — as a discipline in its own right.
• •Served as president of the AAAI and shaped the methodology of knowledge-based systems.