Edward H. Shortliffe
Academic
1947 –
Who is Edward H. Shortliffe?
Edward Hance Shortliffe is a Canadian-born American biomedical informatician, physician, and computer scientist. Shortliffe is a pioneer in the use of artificial intelligence in medicine. He was the principal developer of the clinical expert system MYCIN, one of the first rule-based artificial intelligence expert systems, which obtained clinical data interactively from a physician user and was used to diagnose and recommend treatment for severe infections. While never used in practice, its performance was shown to be comparable to and sometimes more accurate than that of Stanford infectious disease faculty. This spurred the development of a wide range of activity in the development of rule-based expert systems, knowledge representation, belief nets and other areas, and its design greatly influenced the subsequent development of computing in medicine.
He is also regarded as a founder of the field of biomedical informatics, and in 2006 received one of its highest honors, the Morris F. Collen Award given by the American College of Medical Informatics.
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- Born
- 1947
- Also known as
- Edward H Shortliffe
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University
Applied mathematics
( - 1970) - Doctor of Medicine, Stanford University
( - 1976) - Doctorate, Stanford University
Medical Information Systems
( - 1975)
- Bachelor of Arts, Harvard University
- Employment
- Stanford University
(1979 - 2000) - Columbia University
(2000 - )
- Stanford University
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on July 23, 2013
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