There was an article posted here on HN not too long ago about Japan's 5th generation computer project. It was more about what killed logic programming but this

There was an article posted here on HN not too long ago about Japan's 5th generation computer project. It was more about what killed logic programming but this China+supercomputing thing reminds me of this a little. Here's the article: http://vanemden.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/who-killed-prolog/ http://vanemden.wordpress.com/2010/08/21/who-killed-prolog/ EDIT: Wikipedia page about the project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer