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**Afigenatjola** · 08-29-2012, 04:01 PM

I worked with someone who was developing an "Expert System". It seemed to me to be just a glorified book with hyperlinks.

You may have noticed that pattern recognition software (machine vision), text recognition software (Omnipage etc.) and speech recognition software (Dragon etc.) is pretty pathetic.

There was a group in a lab I worked in about 20 years ago doing work on 'expert systems'. They were all the rage then. As you say, I always thought that they were just a glorified book with hyperlinks. In fact the GUI was a spiral back book. I wonder if any of those systems that they developed to 'capture knowledge' are still running today?

08-29-2012, 04:01 PM	#9
Afigenatjola Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 376 Senior Member	I worked with someone who was developing an "Expert System". It seemed to me to be just a glorified book with hyperlinks. You may have noticed that pattern recognition software (machine vision), text recognition software (Omnipage etc.) and speech recognition software (Dragon etc.) is pretty pathetic. There was a group in a lab I worked in about 20 years ago doing work on 'expert systems'. They were all the rage then. As you say, I always thought that they were just a glorified book with hyperlinks. In fact the GUI was a spiral back book. I wonder if any of those systems that they developed to 'capture knowledge' are still running today?
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