Distributed intelligence for user-oriented computing
Tien Chi Chen · 1972
The primitives used by the computer designer have blossomed from the single logical connectives of two decades ago, into chips containing thousands of circuits and bits. Yet the quantitative aspect of the achievement, imposing as it is, signifies less than the qualitative injection of machine intelligence down to the chip level. With the consequent freedom to distribute computing power, machine design enters a new era.