Logic for problem-solving
Data-Driven and Demand-Driven Computer Architecture
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Communications of the ACM
Introduction to VLSI Systems
A recursive computer architecture for VLSI
ISCA '82 Proceedings of the 9th annual symposium on Computer Architecture
Decentralised control flow - based on UNIX
Proceedings of the 1983 ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Programming language issues in software systems
Survey on special purpose computer architectures for AI
ACM SIGART Bulletin
The Fifth Generation grail: A survey of related research
ACM '84 Proceedings of the 1984 annual conference of the ACM on The fifth generation challenge
Agent-oriented programming: from prolog to guarded definite clauses
Agent-oriented programming: from prolog to guarded definite clauses
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Four major areas of research are involved in attempting to identify the fifth generation of computers (cir. 1990). The investigation of: knowledge processing systems, data and demand driven computers, integrating communications and computers, and VLSI processor architectures. From these four areas, two approaches for the fifth generation are emerging: one “revolutionary” - a parallel logic machine supporting knowledge processing applications, and the other “evolutionary” - a decentralised control flow system consisting of a network of heterogeneous processors. This paper describes the above four areas of research and discusses how their computing technologies are converging to produce fifth generation computers. It then contrasts the revolutionary logic machine approach adopted by Japan's Fifth Generation Project, and favoured by the artificial intelligence community, with the evolutionary control flow computer approach favoured by the data communications and microelectronics communities.