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Rule-Based Expert Systems: The Mycin Experiments (1984)

Rule-Based Expert Systems: The MYCIN Experiments of the Stanford Heuristic Programming Project Edited by Bruce G. Buchanan and Edward H. Shortliffe 754 pp., references, index, illus. electronic text Addison Wesley, Reading, MA, 1984 Out of print. All chapters are freely available below. Artificial intelligence, or AI, is largely an experimental science—at least as much progress has been made by building and analyzing programs as by examining theoretical questions. MYCIN is one of several w

Notorious Fungus Blamed for ‘Mummy’s Curse’ Is Now a Promising Cancer Treatment

In the 1920s, a number of workers on the excavation team that uncovered King Tutankhamun’s tomb met untimely deaths. Five decades later, 10 out of 12 scientists died after entering the tomb of the 15th-century Polish King Casimir IV. In both cases, researchers suggested that fungal spores could have played a role in the mysterious deaths, specifically identifying the fungus Aspergillus flavus within the Polish burial. A. flavus is now making a comeback, but not as a reawakened killer from ancie