XCON Expert System
Era: AI Winter · 1970s–1990s
DEC deployed XCON (eXpert CONfigurer), an expert system for configuring VAX computer systems. Development began in 1978 at CMU; initial deployment was 1979, with full operational status by 1980 — one of the first commercially successful expert systems, saving the company millions annually.
Digital Equipment Corporation
Sources and support
R1: A rule-based configurer of computer systems
Artificial Intelligence · Source type: paper
McDermott’s technical account of the R1/XCON configurer built for Digital Equipment Corporation.
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