Brain Waves

Brain Waves "Viewpoint" November 1986 AI EXPERT by Alex Jacobson, President, Inference Corporation Expert systems technology enables computer to use human expertise, judgments and knowledge to solve business problems in an emulation of the way human experts do. There is considerable evidence to suggest that this technology, when applied to a well- focused, sufficiently well-defined domain of interest (e.g., authorization of a specific type of credit card, diagnosing of faults in a specific piece of equipment, scheduling of a specific fleets of vehicles in a specific geographic area or configuring of a specific set of machines on a specif...