---
title: "The Art of Artificial Intelligence: Themes and Case Studies of Knowledge Engineering"
authors:
  - "Edward A. Feigenbaum"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/231"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/0231.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1977
pages: "1014-1028"
track: "Invited Panel"
keywords:
---

# The Art of Artificial Intelligence: Themes and Case Studies of Knowledge Engineering

Edward A. Feigenbaum

*Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1014-1028.

## Abstract

The knowledge engineer practices the art of bringing the principles and tools of AI research to bear on difficult applications problems requiring experts' knowledge for their solution. The technical issues of acquiring this knowledge, representing it, and using it appropri : ·. tely to construct and explain lines-of-reasoning, are important problems in the design of knowledgebased systems. Various systems tha .t have achieved expert level performance in scientific and medical inference illuminate the art of knowledge engineering and its parent science, Artificial Intelligence.