Quote: the DENDRAL expert system had a quite limited impact on organic chemistry; it was not useful for large difficult problems

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the impact of [DENDRAL, CONGEN, AND GENOA] on the conduct of … existence of the programs. … [p. 243] DENDRAL is not useful for the largest, … The model of use implicit in the CONGEN/ … [symbiotic form of DENDRAL] is that a chemist will bring to the program a … constraints, and will then wait for a list … possibly easy enough that the chemist would have … is only when perhaps a dozen to a … small window. [lists other, more social, reasons for its failure]   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: DENDRAL's successors generated possible solutions to a problem; they generated too many candidates for difficult problems, while simple problems could be done by hand

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