MYCIN

MYCIN was an early expert system developed at Stanford University over five or six years in the early 1970s to assist physicians in diagnosing severe bacterial infections, such as bacteremia and meningitis, and in choosing antibiotics, with the dosage adjusted for the patient's body weight. Its name comes from the antibiotics themselves, many of which end in the suffix "mycin." MYCIN was written in LISP as the doctoral dissertation of Edward Shortliffe, then an MD and PhD student at Stanford Medical School, under the direction of Bruce G. Buchanan, Stanley N. Cohen and others, and it came out…