Engineering Cognitive Systems: Japan's Real-World Computing Programme

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Pollitzer, Elizabeth

Affiliations: Department of Computing, Imperial College, 180 Queens Gate, London SW6 3SB, e-mail: eep@doc.ic.ac.uk

Abstract: Japan has, through MITI, proposed a new major programme of research under the name Real-World Computing. Its aim is both very admirable and very ambitious, it is to provide computers with a human-like information processing competence, including the capability of collaborating with humans. These areas of research have, in the recent years, been actively fostered in Europe. There is therefore a real opportunity for a fruitful collaboration between Japanese and European researchers, and the purpose of this paper is to explain in detail what the new programme is about.

DOI: 10.3233/AIC-1992-5202

Journal: AI Communications, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 56-61, 1992