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As part of honoring pioneering efforts that shaped the global development of Artificial Intelligence, the AIWS History of AI House proudly features the seminal work of Professor Edward Feigenbaum, a distinguished member of the AIWS History of AI.
“The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan’s Computer Challenge to the World”
By Edward Feigenbaum and Pamela McCorduck
This landmark book chronicles Japan’s bold vision in the early 1980s to lead the world into a new era of intelligent computing. It captures the ambition, innovation, and global ripple effects of Japan’s Fifth Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) project—a national initiative launched in 1982 by Japan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI).
“A Japanese National Fifth Generation Project: Introduction, Survey, and Evaluation”
By Edward Feigenbaum and Howard Shrobe
Published from the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University and MIT’s AI Lab, this academic paper provides a detailed technical and strategic overview of the FGCS project.
Key Highlights:
Despite its eventual limitations, the FGCS project remains a historically significant milestone—representing one of the first nationally coordinated efforts to industrialize AI. It laid critical groundwork for the rise of knowledge systems, logic-based inference machines, and AI’s integration into economic strategy.
Professor Edward Feigenbaum and Nguyen Anh Tuan
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