Alvey

Alvey

The Alvey Programme was a British government sponsored research program in information technology that ran from 1983 to 1987. The program was a reaction to the Japanese Fifth generation computer project.

Focus areas for the Alvey Programme included:

* VLSI (very large scale integration) technology for microelectronics
* Intelligent Knowledge Based Systems (IKBS) or Artificial Intelligence (AI)
* Software Engineering
* Man-Machine Interface (included Natural Language Processing)
* Systems Architecture (for parallel processing)

References

* Brian Oakley and Kenneth Owen, "Alvey: Britain's Strategic Computing Initiative", MIT Press, 1990. ISBN 0-262-15038-7
* Chris Rigatuso, Takeshi Tachi, Dennis Sysvester & Mark Soper, [http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~eecsba1/sp97/reports/eecsba1g/report/report.html#consortcaseb|"Collaboration between Firms in Information Technology"] , Berkeley, EE 290X Group G.


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