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If you find PARC interesting, and especially if you're interested in symbolic computation, I can highly recommend digging as deep as you can possibly stomach in
by ux266478 4mo ago
If you find PARC interesting, and especially if you're interested in symbolic computation, I can highly recommend digging as deep as you can possibly stomach into the FGCS:
https://www.airc.aist.go.jp/aitec-icot/ICOT/HomePage.html https://www.airc.aist.go.jp/aitec-icot/ICOT/HomePage.html
As a public research initiative, pretty much everything was published when the initiative was completed. PIMs are absolute engineering marvels. The ICOT had command of an army of the absolute best talent in the entire country, and unified them towards a goal of pure exploratory research with no market pressure, with all the excesses of 1980s Japan.
- watersb 4mo agoFGCS: the Fifth-Generation Computing System I was really excited about this initiative at the time, just starting my computer science undergrad degree. Hardware that ran Prolog as close to bare metal as possible. Thanks for the reminder. 40 years ago.
- imglorp 4mo agoMore Japanese excesses from the '80s: the Tron computing project. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project
- AreShoesFeet000 4mo ago> According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, in 1989 US officials feared that TRON could undercut American dominance in computers, but that in the end PC software and chips based on the TRON technology proved no match for Windows and Intel's processors as a global standard. “Excess” implies irrationality, but I wonder how could something irrational be a threat to ‘American dominance in computers’?