Prospects for New Generation Computing

Ten years have passed since the Journal of New Generation Computing was first published, and around 40 issues have been published in that time. The planning and introduction of the journal was stimulated by the Fifth Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) project in Japan. Therefore the journal focused on logic programming, dedicated parallel hardware for logic programming and knowledge information processing--the central issues of the project. Many good papers on those and other topics appeared in the journal. The FGCS project came to a successful conclusion in March 1993, after the completion of a further year in addition to the original ten-year plan. In fact, the project has been evaluated so high that a follow-on two-year project has been started, with the aim of developing more realistic parallel inference technologies, from the results of the FGCS project, that are tailored to commercial