Fifth Generation Computer Systems

Was thinking about the Japanese Fifth Generation Computer Systems project of the 1980s. It was a very large project aimed at producing an AI Supercomputer. It is all but forgotten today. It did shake up the US computer industry, which feared the Japanese would do to the computer market what they had done to the automobile market in the 1970s (produce a better, cheaper product). MCC in Austin was formed as a direct reaction to the Japanese FGSC.