| Aaron | Harold Cohen | A drawing program. |
| ABDUL/ILANA | Harold Cohen | Constructs both sides of an argument of the Mideast debate. |
| AGE (Attempt to Generalize) | Penny Nil | Programmers can design experts they need for a certain task. |
| AM (Automated Mathematician) | Douglas Lenat | Simulates a mathematician. |
| ANALOGY [pdf] | Tom Evans | Finds analogies in diagrams similar to ones used in IQ tests. |
| ART (Automated Reasoning Tool) | Inference Corporation | An aid to designing expert systems. |
| Bacon | Patrick Langler, Gary Bradshaw | A program that
makes scientific discoveries using experimental data. |
| BORIS
(Better Organized Reasoning & Inference System) | Michael Dyer | A story-understanding program. |
| Buggy | John Brown, Richard Burton | Analyzes a student's tests results, & sift out the bugs. |
| CHI | Cordell Green | Given a brief description of a task in very high-level language called V, CHI writes a detailed LISP program. |
| CYRUS (Computerized Yale Reasoning & Understanding System) | Janet Kolodner | Monitored all stories about Cyrus Vance and used them to complie a detailed dossier. |
| ELI (English Language Interpreter) | Chris Riesbeck | A natural language program that was the language module of SAM. |
| Eliza | Joseph Weizenbaum | Parodied the
noncommital style of questioning of a Rogerian psychoanalyst. |
| EPAM (Elementary Perciever & Memorizer) | Edward Feigenbaum | Demonstrated a possible mechanism by which we memorize strings of nonsense syllables. |
| Eurisko | Douglas Lenat | Played in a futuristic war game and won. Could make discoveries using some rule as guidelines. |
| FRUMP (Fast Reading, Understanding, & Memory Program) | Jerry DeJong | Reads & parapharases news stories from the UPI wire service, indicating that it has, in a sense,understand the subject matter. |
| GPS (General Problem Solver) | Allen Newell, Herbert Simon | Could solve problems in symbolic logic. |
| Harpy | Bruce Lowerre, Raj Reddy | Understood spoken words. |
| Hearsay I | The Carnegie-Mellon Team | Understood spoken words relating to chess. |
| Hearsay II | The Carnegie-Mellon Team | Designed to mimic a group of consultants-each with expertise in a different fieldeworking together to solve a problem. |
| HWIM (Hear What I Mean) | William Woods, & the BBN group | Used rules of syntax but also of semantics, pragmatics, & prosodics to understand spoke words. |
| ID3 (Interactive Dichotomizer 3) | J. R. Quinlan | Splits concepts in two. |
| Ideology Machine | Robert Abelson | Simulates the belief system of a right-wing ideologue. |
| INDUCE | Ryszard Michalski | Diagnoses soybean diseases. |
| IPP (Integrated Partial Parser) | Michael Lebowitz | Follows news stories about terrorism and learns from them. |
| Logic Theorist | Herbert Gelernter | Proved theorems in plane geometry. |
| Lunar | William Woods | Could understand questions and gave answers about geology. |
| MARGIE (Memory, Analysis, Response Generation in English) | Christopher Riesbeck, Chuck Rieger, Neil Goldman | Could understand sentences. |
| PAM (Plan Applier Mechanism) | Robert Wilensky | Had general knowledge about people's goals & desieres & how they might formulate plans to achieve them. |
| PAMELA | Joe Faletti, Peter Norvig | PAM revised to include associated thinking. |
| Pandemonium | Oliver Selfridge | Used demon pgms trying to capture the attention of a master demon. |
| PANDORA (Plan Analyzer with Dynamic Organization, Revision, & Application) | Joe Faletti | Could analyze plans for conflict, revise them if any conflicts were detected, and apply them when they were determined to be conflict-free. |
| Parry | Kenneth Colby | Simulated a patient suffering from paranoia. |
| PHRAN (Phrasal Analyzer) | Yigal Arens | A natural language "front end" program. It converted language into conceptual-dependency form. |
| PHRED (Phrasal English Diction) | Steve Upstill | A natural-language generating program. |
| POLITICS | Jaime Carbonell | A model of a US senator‘s position on foriegn policy questions, complete with belief systems that held the beliefs of a conservative and those of a liberal. |
| Racter | William Chamberlain, Thomas Etter | Generates surrealistic-sounding prose in a manner reminiscent of Dada artists of the early 20th century. |
| SAD SAM | Robert K. Lindsay | Parsed sentences in ordinary English & extracted from them information about family trees. |
| SAINT (Symbolic Automatic Integrator) | James Slagle | Applied the methodology of Newell & Shaw's Logic Theorist to problems of symbolic integration. |
| SAM (Script Applier Mechanism) | Richard Cullingford, Wendy Lehnert | Could understand simple stories processing several sentences together. |
| SHRDLU | Terry Winograd | Understood simple English sentences but could engage in a typewriten conversation about its world which contained nothing but blocks. |
| SIR (Semantic Information Retrieval) | Bertram Raphael | Understood simple English sentences describing situations involving part-whole relations, ownerships, & certain spatial relations. |
| STUDENT | Daniel Bobrow | Solved algebra story problems. |
| TAIL-SPIN | James Meehan | Makes up stories about animals. |
| VISIONS (Visual Integration by Semantic Interpretation of Natural Scenes) | Victor Lesser | A blackboard program in which top-level knowledge interacts with bottom-level knowledge to identify objects in a photograph. |