Abstract
Japan has, through MITI, proposed a new major programme of research under the name Real-World Computing. Its aim is both very admirable and very ambitious, it is to provide computers with a human-like information processing competence, including the capability of collaborating with humans. These areas of research have, in the recent years, been actively fostered in Europe. There is therefore a real opportunity for a fruitful collaboration between Japanese and European researchers, and the purpose of this paper is to explain in detail what the new programme is about.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.