Intelligent computing era takes off
Some call it the Dawn of a New Computer Age. Others call it the Post-Industrial Revolution. Still others call it the Age of Knowledge. Whatever the name, computers have entered another period of change in which they will be transformed, not simply improved. During the next decade or so, computers will be constructed differently and will operate differently. Most importantly, they will begin to reason and apply logic. These developments will not merely produce a dramatic change in the role of computers worldwide; they will cause a dramatic effect on society as well. Aggressive computer research and engineering efforts are concentrated in two areas: the development of intelligent, logic-based, and interactive fifthgeneration computers; and faster, more easily accessed supercomputers. The symbol-manipulating, fifth-generation computers will use non-von Neumann architectures, advanced software, artificial intelligence, and new hardware materials. They will be able to receive voice and sensor input, access arrays of knowledge and data bases worldwide, and solve problems using reason and inference. With this newfound intelligence, these machines will cease to function only as sophisticated data manipulators and will act more like intelligent assistants.
- OSTI ID:
- 5917535
- Journal Information:
- Computer Design; (United States), Journal Name: Computer Design; (United States)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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