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Japan bets the national budget on logic inference

Fifth Generation Computer Systems project

Date
April 1982
Category
Industry & policy
Organization / Model
Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry
Evidence
1 source · 1 evidence family

MITI launched a ten-year Fifth Generation Computer Systems project aiming to build knowledge-processing machines from logic programming and parallel inference. It drew matching investment abroad and was later scaled back as overambitious.

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    Fifth Generation Computer Systems project

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