The 1980s AI "boom" was tiny.
In the 1980s, AI was a few people at Stanford, a few people at CMU, a few people at MIT, and a scattering of people elsewhere. There were maybe a half dozen startups and none of them got very big.
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In the 1980s, AI was a few people at Stanford, a few people at CMU, a few people at MIT, and a scattering of people elsewhere. There were maybe a half dozen startups and none of them got very big.
Maybe that's the view from the US. In the '70s, '80s and '90s, ymbolic and logic-based AI flourished in Europe, in the UK and France with seminal work on program verification and model checking, with rich collaborations on logic programming between mainly British and French institutions, in japan with the 5th Generation Computer project, and in Australia with the foundational work of J. Ross Quinlan and others on machine learning, which at the time (late 8'0s and early 90's) meant primarily symbolic approaches, like decision tree learners.
But, as usual, the US thinks progress is only what happens in the US.