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Introduction to the fifth generation

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In October 1981, Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) sponsored a conference to announce a new national project. Alongside national projects in supercomputing and robotics, there would be an effort to develop a new generation (the fifth, by their reckoning) of computers.

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