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title: "NON-VON: A Parallel Machine Architecture for Knowledge-Based Information Processing"
authors:
  - "David E. Shaw"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/183"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0183.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1981
pages: "961-962"
track: "Hardware"
keywords:
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# NON-VON: A Parallel Machine Architecture for Knowledge-Based Information Processing

David E. Shaw

*Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 961-962.

## Abstract

NON- VON is a highly parallel machine designed to support the efficient implementation of very large scale knowledge-based systems. The utility of such a machine has been demonstrated analytically [1, 2] and through implementation of a working knowledge-based information retrieval system in which the NON-VON machine instructions were emulated in software [3]. In cooperation with the Stanford Computer Science Department, we have recently begun to implement the most important components of the machine as custom VLSI circuits.