Alvey

For the roller coaster enthusiast and video game producer, see Robb 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, Collaboration between Firms in Information Technology, Berkeley, EE 290X Group G.

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