Online archive tells early history of AI and Stanford's Computer Science Department The Dish

Computer scientist and AI pioneer EDWARD A. FEIGENBAUM has partnered with Stanford Libraries to make his personal papers available online, including more than 16,500 notes, scientific development documents, correspondence, Artificial Intelligence Lab memos, audio tapes and videos. Starting with the dawn of artificial intelligence research and computer science in 1956, the Edward A. Feigenbaum Papers allows users to explore a pivotal time in AI history by accessing documents from Feigenbaum's distinguished career as a scientist, book author, department chairman, government adviser and chief scientist of the U.S. Air Force. Feigenbaum joined the Stanford computer science faculty in 1965 as one of its founding members. That same year, he and Professor JOSHUA LEDERBERG, who had won a Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology in 1958, before coming to Stanford, started the DENDRAL project, the world's first expert system. DENDRAL's groundbreaking work moved artificial intelligence out of the laboratory and into the structure of countless software applications.