Alvey

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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)

[edit] 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, Collaboration between Firms in Information Technology, Berkeley, EE 290X Group G.