"In the heyday of artificial intelligence and expert systems, it was thought that computers could make human like decisions. This program looks at several early examples." Hosted by Stewart Cheifet and Gary Kildall. with in-studio guests: Mike Doyle of Kepner-Tregoe demonstrating Decision Aide, Bill Barton from Palisade Corporation demonstrating AT RISK!, Peter McNamee of Strategic Decisions Group demonstrating Super Tree, and Jared Taylor from PC Magazine. Ray Levitt of Stanford University and Lee Siegler of Teknowledge also appear in this episode.
After the main program, Kate Megargee presents industry news in the Random Access segment.
Date of Video:
1987/1988/1989 - see comment
Color. Sound. Length (min:sec): 27:19.
Copyright Info:
KCSM TV, San Mate
Interesting Clips:
2:06 difference between decision support software and expert systems
3:13 Assoc. Professor Ray Levitt explains expert systems and shells
5:20 demo of Decision Aide by Mike Doyle
9:18 demo of AT RISK! by Bill Barton
13:07 Lee Siegler discusses applications of their expert system shell
15:13 Jared Taylor discusses decision support software techniques
16:28 demo of Super Tree by Peter McNamee
22: Random Access news report covering these businesses & topics: Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Apple, e-document legislation, Atari, IBM, a multi-language word processor & printer, and Smith-Corona.
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The Internet Archive shows a broadcast date of 1987. The video opens with a panel showing the date: August 31, 1989. The copyright date for the show is 1988 [27:17].
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