Download or read book The Fifth Generation Computer Project written by and published by Elsevier Science & Technology. This book was released on 1983 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview and introduction to the fifth generation. Knowledge for machines. VLSI overall system design. VLSI applications: speech processing. Distributed processing power in memory. Japan - road to the future. Logic as the fifth generation computer language. Content addressing as an aid to information management. The intelligent interface system. The need for theory to illuminate problem solving and inference. Computer architectures for the fifth generation. Intelligent user interfaces. A view of the fifth generation and its impact. Introduction - the role of information in human affairs. The scope and present status of information engineering. Technology forecasting. Technology forecast for information engineering. An assessment of the JIPDEC proposals.