NEC
Japanese technology corporation that contributed to Japan's Fifth Generation Computer Systems project, aimed at advancing logic programming and AI.
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Fifth Generation Computer Systems Project, Japan
In October 1981, Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry launched the Fifth Generation Computer Systems project, a ten-year state-funded programme delegated to the newly created Institute for New Generation Computer Technology (ICOT), aiming to build computers capable of logical inference, natural-language processing, and machine vision, with a budget of approximately 54 billion yen.