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Subject: New Generation computing: Japanese and U.S. motivations
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Date: Tue, 20-Dec-83 09:13:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 20 09:13:00 1983
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Ron,

I believe that you have painted a misleading picture of a complex situation.

>From talking to participants involved, I believe that MITI is
funding the Japanese Fifth Generation Project primarily for commercial
competitive advantage.  In particular they hope to compete with IBM
more effectively than as plug-compatible manufacturers.  MITI also
hopes to increase Japanese intellectual prestige.  Congress is funding
Strategic Computing to maintain and strengthen US military and
commercial technology.  A primary motivation for strengthening the
commercial technology is to meet the Japanese challenge.