Textbook of AI

1940–, Computer scientist, AI researcher

Bruce G. Buchanan is an American computer scientist who, with Edward Feigenbaum and Joshua Lederberg at Stanford, co-developed DENDRAL (from 1965), the first major expert system, and with Edward Shortliffe and Feigenbaum MYCIN (from 1972). His later work on Meta-DENDRAL introduced machine-induced rule generation: rather than hand-coding the chemistry rules, Meta-DENDRAL learned them from spectra-structure pairs, making it one of the first significant inductive-learning systems in AI.

Buchanan moved from Stanford to the University of Pittsburgh in 1988, where he founded the Intelligent Systems Program. He was president of AAAI (1999–2001).