One of the first AI programs was developed by Carl Djerassi in 1965. It was called Dendral and automatically identified unknown forms of medication. The name Dendral is an acronym for the term “dendritic algorithm.”
Heuristic and Meta-Dendral
The project involved research into the two main programs, Heuristic Dendral and Meta-Dendral, as well as several subprograms. It was written in the Lisp programming language, which was considered the language of AI due to its flexibility.
Derivatives
Many systems were derived from Dendral, including MYCIN, MOLGEN, PROSPECTOR, XCON, and STEAMER.