DENDRAL

Paul McJones, editor - paul@mcjones.org / http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/
Software Preservation Group
Computer History Museum

Introduction

The goal of this project is to preserve and present primary and secondary source materials (including specifications, source code, manuals, and papers discussing design and implementation) from the DENDRAL project at Stanford University. The editor greatly appreciates comments, suggestions, and donations of additional materials.

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Source code
• Documentation
• Papers and reports
• Other DENDRAL resources

Acknowledgments

Thanks to: Edward Feigenbaum, Bruce Buchanan, and T. C. Rindfleisch.

Source code

Interlisp implementation

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BCPL implementation

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Documentation

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Papers and reports

• Bruce G. Buchanan and Edward A. Feigenbaum. DENDRAL and META-DENDRAL: Their Applications Dimension. In: Bonnie Webber and Nils Nilsson, editors, Readings in Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann, 1981, pages 313-322. PDF at infolab.stanford.edu
• Joshua Lederberg. How DENDRAL was conceived and born. PDF at hpslab.stanford.edu
• N. A. B. Gray. Response to comments by Buchanan, Feigenbaum and Lederberg. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Volume 5 (1988), pages 37-38.
• Edward Feigenbaum and Bruce Buchanan. Dendral and meta-dendral: roots of knowledge systems and expert system applications. Artificial Intelligence, 59:233-240, 1993.

Other DENDRAL resources

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