Rule-Based Expert Systems:The MYCIN Experiments of the Stanford Heuristic Programming Project Edited by Bruce G. Buchanan and Edward H. Shortliffe 754 pp., references, index, illus. electronic text Addison Wesley, Reading, MA, 1984 Out of print. All chapters are freely available below. Artificial intelligence, or AI, is largely an experimental science—at least as much progress has been made by building and analyzing programs as by examining theoretical questions. MYCIN is one of several well-kn...