A Retrospective and Prospects of the Fifth Generation Computer Project

Authors/editors: Ishikawa, Akira Type: working paper Publisher: IC² Institute, The University of Texas at Austin Series: IC² Institute Working Papers;WP-1993-09-05 Date: 1993-09 Read: Full text

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Report on the Fifth Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) project undertaken by the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in the period 1982-1992. The Fifth Generation Computer was developed using a framework of parallel processing and inference processing based on logic programming. The project received an investment of ¥54.15 billion ($416.54 million) and employed around 100 young engineers.

Tags: computer engineering, Fifth Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Japan, Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI)

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