Dendral was a project in artificial intelligence (AI) of the 1960s, and the computer software expert system that it produced. Its primary aim was to study hypothesis formation and discovery in science.

DENDRAL, an early expert system, developed beginning in 1965 by the artificial intelligence (AI) researcher Edward Feigenbaum and the geneticist Joshua Lederberg, both of Stanford University in California.

The DENDRAL Project was one of the first large-scale programs to embody the strategy of using detailed, task-specific knowledge about a problem domain as a source of heuristics, and to seek generality through automating the acquisition of such knowledge.

DENDRAL was an influential project in artificial intelligence (AI) of the 1960s, and the computer software expert system that it produced. Its primary aim was to study hypothesis formation and discovery in science.

How DENDRAL was conceived and born. Joshua Lederberg Rockefeller University New York, N.Y. As agreed with your organizers, this will be a somewhat personal history. They have given me permission to recall how I came to work with Ed Feigenbaum on DENDRAL, an exemplar of expert systems and of

1993年6月1日 · The DENDRAL Project was one of the first large-scale programs to embody the strategy of using detailed, task-specific knowledge about a problem domain as a source of heuristics, and to seek generality through automating the acquisition of such knowledge.

DENDRAL work was largely experimental work. One of the earliest of the experimental results was also perhaps the most important. That was the knowledge-is-power hypothesis, which has become the slogan by which many in AI remember the DENDRAL Project.

1993年2月1日 · Success with DENDRAL led us back to the original problem of theory formation, which now appeared in a quite specific and concrete form that was "meta" to DENDRAL (hence the project's name, Meta-DENDRAL).

1993年6月1日 · For expert systems, the progenitor is pretty clearly the DENDRAL system, although many other projects and ideas have had significant influence. This paper describes the history of DENDRAL, outlining its problem background, development history, present state, and lessons learned.

2024年6月5日 · Developed in the 1960s at Stanford University, DENDRAL was the first knowledge-intensive system, revolutionizing the way we approach AI and expert systems. Its development marked a significant milestone in AI, leading to advancements that continue to influence modern technology.