Management Information Systems a model of mis, Leading Research, and Research Trends

A Chronological History

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  1950: The man widely acknowledged as the father of computer science, Alan Turing, published "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
  
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  1956: John McCarthy coined the term "artificial intelligence" as the topic of the Dartmouth Conference, the first conference devoted to the subject.
  
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  1957: The General Problem Solver (GPS) demonstrated by Newell, Shaw and Simon.
  
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  1952-1962: Arthur Samuel (IBM) wrote the first game-playing program, for checkers (draughts), to achieve sufficient skill to challenge a world champion.
  
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  1958: John McCarthy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology or MIT) invented the Lisp programming language.
  
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  1967: Dendral program (Edward Feigenbaum, Joshua Lederberg, Bruce Buchanan, Georgia Sutherland at Stanford University) demonstrated to interpret mass spectra on organic chemical compounds. First successful knowledge-based program for scientific reasoning.
  
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  1968: Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert publish Perceptrons, demonstrating limits of simple neural nets.
  
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  Early 70's: Jane Robinson and Don Walker established an influential Natural Language Processing group at SRI.
  
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  1972: Prolog programming language developed by Alain Colmerauer.
  
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  1974: Ted Shortliffe's PhD dissertation on the MYCIN program (Stanford) demonstrated the power of rule-based systems for knowledge representation and inference in the domain of medical diagnosis and therapy. Sometimes called the first expert system.
  
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  1975: Marvin Minsky published his widely-read and influential article on Frames as a representation of knowledge, in which many ideas about schemas and semantic links are brought together.
  
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  1976: Douglas Lenat's AM program (Stanford PhD dissertation) demonstrated the discovery model (loosely-guided search for interesting conjectures).
  
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  1978: Herbert Simon wins the Nobel Prize in Economics for his theory of bounded rationality, one of the cornerstones of AI known as "satisficing".
  
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  Mid 80's: Neural Networks become widely used with the Backpropagation algorithm (first described by Paul Werbos in 1974).
  
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  1987: Marvin Minsky publishes The Society of Mind, a theoretical description of the mind as a collection of cooperating agents.
  
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  1990's: Major advances in all areas of AI, with significant demonstrations in machine learning, intelligent tutoring, case-based reasoning, multi-agent planning, scheduling, uncertain reasoning, data mining, natural language understanding and translation, vision, virtual reality, games, and other topics.
  
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  1997: The Deep Blue chess program (IBM) beats the world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, in a widely followed match.
  
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  Late 90's: Web crawlers and other AI-based information extraction programs become essential in widespread use of the World Wide Web.
  

Trend of Artificial Intelligence in MIS

We used five keywords to try and trend the activity of AI in research: Data mining (text mining and web mining), machine learning, expert system, knowledge management and discovery, and information retrieval. Although some fields like expert systems are dropping down, many fields keep growing in the past two decade, which help to sustain the livingness of AI.

Russ Biagio Altman

Professor of Genetics, Bioengineering, and Medicine(and Computer Science, by courtesy)

Director, Biomedical Informatics Training Program

Stanford University (Stanford, CA)

EDUCATION

MD – Medicine, Stanford University, 1990

PhD –Medical Information Sciences, Stanford University, 1989

AB –Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Harvard College, 1983

AWARDS

Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching- Stanford Medical School 2000

Fellow - American College of Medical Informatics 1998

U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers - NIH 1997

RESEARCH INTERESTS

The application of computational technologies to problems in molecular biology of relevance to medicine. Analysis of protein and RNA structure and function, Novel user interfaces to biological data, and Analysis of microenvironment to the structure of important biological macromolecules.

KEY PUBLICATIONS

Chang JT, Schutze H, Altman RB(2002) "Creating an online dictionary of abbreviations from MEDLINE"  JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION 9 (6): 612-620.
Altman RB(2000) "The interactions between clinical informatics and bioinformatics: A case study"  JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION 7 (5): 439-443
ALTMAN RB(1995) "A PROBABILISTIC APPROACH TO DETERMINING BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURE - INTEGRATING UNCERTAIN DATA SOURCES"  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER STUDIES 42 (6): 593-616

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