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Yearb Med Inform 2015; 24(01): 227-233
DOI: 10.15265/IY-2015-016
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Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart

An Opening Chapter of the First Generation of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: The First Rutgers AIM Workshop, June 1975

C. A. Kulikowski
1   Department of Computer Science, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
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30 June 2015

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10 March 2018 (online)

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The first generation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medicine methods were developed in the early 1970’s drawing on insights about problem solving in AI. They developed new ways of representing structured expert knowledge about clinical and biomedical problems using causal, taxonomic, associational, rule, and frame-based models. By 1975, several prototype systems had been developed and clinically tested, and the Rutgers Research Resource on Computers in Biomedicine hosted the first in a series of workshops on AI in Medicine that helped researchers and clinicians share their ideas, demonstrate their models, and comment on the prospects for the field. These developments and the workshops themselves benefited considerably from Stanford’s SUMEX-AIM pioneering experiment in biomedical computer networking. This paper focuses on discussions about issues at the intersection of medicine and artificial intelligence that took place during the presentations and panels at the First Rutgers AIM Workshop in New Brunswick, New Jersey from June 14 to 17, 1975.

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Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) - first Rutgers AIM workshop - biomedical knowledge representation - biomedical problem solving - clinical decision making
 

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