Mycin

MYCIN or Mycin is a developed since 1972 at Stanford University in the programming language Lisp expert system that was used for the diagnosis and therapy of infectious diseases by antibiotics. At the time of its development began the excessive use of antibiotics to be considered critical and therefore looked for ways to optimize their application depending on the particular disease. To this end, a number of parameters had to be determined and related to each other, including the type of pathogen, the previous course of the disease, certain laboratory data, etc. The complexity of this problem was so large that it promoted the development of an expert system. So finally emerged MYCIN, which ever is one of the first expert systems.

If it is also true for the computer science as one of the most important milestones in the field of expert systems, it became not the meaning that you had hoped for in the medical application. This MYCIN reached in his diagnoses quite high hit rates. However, at the time of its development, the general acceptance of computer systems was still relatively low, so that lacked the willingness to rely on the diagnosis of an inscrutable system.

• Artificial intelligence
• Medicine computer science
• Information System