The Fifth Generation Computer Project

Editor's Foreword

Publisher's Note

Invited Papers

1 Overview and Introduction to the Fifth Generation

2 Knowledge for Machines

3 VLSI Overall System Design

4 VLSI Applications: Speech Processing

5 Distributed Processing Power in Memory

6 Japan—Road to the Future

7 Logic as the Fifth Generation Computer Language

8 Content Addressing as an Aid to Information Management

9 The Intelligent Interface System

10 The Need for Theory to Illuminate Problem Solving and Inference

11 Computer Architectures for the Fifth Generation

12 Intelligent User Interfaces

13 A View of the Fifth Generation and Its Impact

Invited Paper References

Analysis

1: Introduction—The Role of Information in Human Affairs

2: The Scope and Present Status of Information Engineering

2:1 Engineering in Society

2:2 User's Needs and Computer Design

2:3 The Field of Interest in Information Engineering

2:4 Architecture Design for People

2:5 The 'Anatomy' of Information and Consequent System Design Objectives

3: Technology Forecasting

4: Technology Forecast for Information Engineering

4:1 The Present Situation

4:2 Current Evolutionary Forces

4:3 Forecast Scenario

5: An Assessment of the JIPDEC Proposals

Analysis References

Bibliography

An Annotated Bibliography of the Fifth Generation Computer Project

Index

Subject and Contributor Index