expert systems

[E. Holtsmark]

Dear John and Hana:

I've just completed a short research paper on expert systems in libraries 
and found out that Internet search engines, like Lycos and Yahoo are 
considered expert systems.  

Does this help?

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Eva Holtsmark
School of Library & Information Science, MLS candidate
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA  52242
eva-holtsmark at uiowa.edu
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On Fri, 15 Dec 1995, John Adder Fink wrote:

> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am looking for URLs and listgroups concerning  the topic of "expert 
> > systems in libraries".
> > I know that expert systems are not a good topic for this listgroup but could 
> > anybody help me?
> > 
> > Thanks very much
> > 
> > Hana Vrbikova
> 
> OK.  I've heard this term bandied about for around four years now but I 
> still don't have any clue as to what the heck "expert systems" are.  
> Maybe it was something taught in all the systems courses that I never 
> took when I was a humanities major... :)
> 
> Someone wanna fill this know-nuthin' in?
> 
> -- jf, senior systems support tech miami university libraries
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