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I gotta side with anigbrowl - the Wikipedia page[1] on the Fifth Generation Project is a much better read than this article. I'd encourage anyone interested in

I gotta side with anigbrowl - the Wikipedia page[1] on the Fifth Generation Project is a much better read than this article. I'd encourage anyone interested in this topic to give it a look. For even more detail, consult the Feigenbaum & McCorduck book[2] mentioned by AlbertCory. It's a very interesting story. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Generation_Computer_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Generation_Computer_Syst... [2]: https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Generation-Artificial-Intelligence-Challenge/dp/0201115190 https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Generation-Artificial-Intellige...

contextfree 2y ago
One of the researchers involved (I think) also maintains a "Fifth Generation Computer Systems Museum": https://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/AITEC_ICOT_ARCHIVES/ICOT/HomePage.html https://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/AITEC_ICOT_ARCHIVES/ICOT/... As the OP article mentions much (most? all?) of the software developed in the project was freely released (under an MIT-like license? https://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/AITEC_ICOT_ARCHIVES/ICOT/using-IFS-E.html https://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/AITEC_ICOT_ARCHIVES/ICOT/... ) and it seems to be available for download (in source form) from here: https://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/AITEC_ICOT_ARCHIVES/ICOT/Museum/IFS/HomePage-E.html https://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/AITEC_ICOT_ARCHIVES/ICOT/... most of it would only run on the prototype computer they wrote, but some of it was ported to Unix.
- mindcrime 2y ago
  Wow. This is amazing. I can't say how happy I am that you posted this. I've never seen this site before... and I explicitly went looking for something like this a while back, and somehow did not find this. I've been fascinated by the FGCS stuff for a long time, and had always thought there must be an archive of that body of knowledge somewhere, but other than a few books on Concurrent Prolog I had not managed to scare up much of it. Now, I find that more or less all of it is online and available? All the Technical Reports, all the Technical Memoranda, and even the software? Amazing. Now if only I read Japanese...

contextfree 2y ago

One of the researchers involved (I think) also maintains a "Fifth Generation Computer Systems Museum": https://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/AITEC_ICOT_ARCHIVES/ICOT/HomePage.html https://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/AITEC_ICOT_ARCHIVES/ICOT/... As the OP article mentions much (most? all?) of the software developed in the project was freely released (under an MIT-like license? https://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/AITEC_ICOT_ARCHIVES/ICOT/using-IFS-E.html https://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/AITEC_ICOT_ARCHIVES/ICOT/... ) and it seems to be available for download (in source form) from here: https://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/AITEC_ICOT_ARCHIVES/ICOT/Museum/IFS/HomePage-E.html https://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/AITEC_ICOT_ARCHIVES/ICOT/... most of it would only run on the prototype computer they wrote, but some of it was ported to Unix.

mindcrime 2y ago
Wow. This is amazing. I can't say how happy I am that you posted this. I've never seen this site before... and I explicitly went looking for something like this a while back, and somehow did not find this. I've been fascinated by the FGCS stuff for a long time, and had always thought there must be an archive of that body of knowledge somewhere, but other than a few books on Concurrent Prolog I had not managed to scare up much of it. Now, I find that more or less all of it is online and available? All the Technical Reports, all the Technical Memoranda, and even the software? Amazing. Now if only I read Japanese...