Buchanan, Sutherland and Feigenbaum: Heuristic DENDRAL

What changed

A program could generate chemically constrained structure explanations for measured spectra.

Scientific scope

The 1969 three-author paper; full project development, independent chemical discovery and later expert systems are excluded.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The target is the exact 1969 three-author paper. Joshua Lederberg and other chemists made major contributions to the wider DENDRAL project and later papers but are not added to this paper’s byline.

Contributors

• Bruce G. Buchanan · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Georgia L. Sutherland · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Edward A. Feigenbaum · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Buchanan, Sutherland and Feigenbaum, Heuristic DENDRAL
• Stanford Edward A. Feigenbaum document archive

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