3 SUMMARY OF RESULTS 

I will sum up my evaluation m six parts 

3.1 Research 

Principal results: 

the PIM prototypes and their architectures; 
performance of PIM of 100 MLIPS and potential for more; 
concurrent languages, GHC and KL1, and their methodology; 
logic programming methodology on: concurrent software, constraint 
programming, partial evaluation, meta programming, and program 
transformation; 
several interesting applications e.g., legal reasoning. 


A superb result, and an outstanding achievement. Consequently, I would rank the 
ICOT work on par with the best in the world. 

The successful advance and experiments of the FGCS project validates some es-
sential aspects of the logic programming paradigm - declarative logic programming for 
(economical) software development and parallel inference machines for efficient com-
puting. 

3.2 Research education and training 

Several of the researchers work for Japanese companies. They have been visiting 
researchers at ICOT and will return to their companies. This leads to a large scale 
training of researchers at the Japanese companies that should yield significant spin-off 
effects in the future. 

3.3 Project planning 

ICOT has had a 10-year working period. This may impose an earlier commitment 
to a research idea than some researchers may want, on the other hand a commitment 
gives the opportunity to come up with concrete prototypes e.g., a PIM. 

3.4 Scientific responses 

We all know the impact of the FGCS project around the world. Japan has given a 
distinguished mark on computer science research in general and logic programming in 
particular. I shall only mention a few responses that I have seen: ESPRIT in Europe; 
MCC and the strategic computer project in the US; and in Sweden research programs 


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