Definitions for "Mycin"
A successful expert system developed at Stanford University in the mid 1970s and designed to aid medical practitioners in prescribing an appropriate antibiotic by determining the exact identity of a blood infection.
Mycin was an early expert system developed over 5 or six years in the early 1970s at the Stanford University; it was written in Lisp, by Edward Shortliffe under the direction of Bruce Buchanan and others; it derived from the earlier Dendral expert system, but considerably modified and extended the basic Dendral software. This computer system was designed to diagnose infectious blood diseases and recommend antibiotics, with the dosage adjusted for patient's body weight — the name derived from the antibiotics themselves, as many antibiotics have the suffix "-mycin".