Word: computerizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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-- By the end of next year, Ford dealers across the country may no longer have to call Dearborn, Mich., to talk with Company Expert Gordy Kujawski every time they run into a hard-to-diagnose engine problem. Instead, they will simply plug into a new nationwide computer system developed by...
Unlike the basic unit of conventional computer programming -- the algorithm, which details a precise series of steps that will yield a precise result -- those rules (referred to in computerese as heuristics) state a relationship that is likely, but not guaranteed, to yield an outcome. Heuristics allow computers to deal with...
Mycin took some 20 man-years to complete. It turned out to be more accurate than the humans against whom it was tested: in one trial, the system prescribed the correct treatment 65% of the time, in contrast to human specialists, who were right in 42.5% to 62.5% of cases...
While Weizenbaum and other critics insisted on measuring Mycin against human intelligence and knowledge, others looked at the system and saw a computer- handling expertise that had previously resisted automation. No one, however, was going to build expert systems if they took several years to construct. Solution: create a Mycin...
The second wave had a rocky start. Too often, enthusiastic young computer nerds babbling in technospeak would sell flashy systems to computer-dazzled counterparts in the research divisions of Fortune 500 companies. In turn, the corporate techies built glitzy prototypes that ran on exotic hardware. By the mid-1980s it...