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   "Paolo Amoroso"  wrote in message   
   news:422bc6e5$1@news.unimelb.edu.au...   
   > What happened to expert systems in industry within the past   
   > decade or so?  Are they still used?  Are they just another one   
   > of those "once it works, it's not AI" technologies?  Have   
   > expert systems been abandoned, or replaced by something else?   
   >   
   > Some context about my question.  I have been reading about,   
   > and experimenting with, expert systems for the past few months.   
   > I bought from Amazon half a dozen well know books such as   
   > "Expert Systems - Principles and Programming" by Giarratano,   
   > "Programming Expert Systems in OPS5" by Brownston et al.,   
   > "Building Expert Systems" by Hayes-Roth et al., and a few more.   
   >   
   > Although I have a basic knowledge of computing and AI history,   
   > I did not closely follow recent AI research and applications.   
   > Many early expert systems books contain a lot of what might now   
   > be considered hype.  But one of the books I bought, Feigenbaum's   
   > "The Rise of the Expert Company", published in 1989, seem to   
   > tell several stories of how this technology improved the bottom   
   > line of many companies.   
   >   
   > To someone not deeply familiar with AI like me, all this seems   
   > to stop around the AI winter.  So, I always wondered what   
   > happened to expert systems since then.  I got Feigenbaum's book   
   > from Amazon at 0.01$ plus shipping: is this any indication of   
   > the fate of expert systems? :)   
   > Are expert systems alive and well?   
      
   Of course they are, and their use is growing. One book you   
   didn't mention but which is probably the most informative   
   w.r.t. expert system use in industry or otherwise is   
      
      The Handbook of Applied Expert Systems   
      CRC Press   
      ISBN 0-8493-3106-4   
      
   HTH.   
      
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