Support was provided to research groups deemed competent with a minimum of bureaucratic complications and bypassing both the university administration and peer review procedures. Success will depend, in part, on political variables; but it will also depend on the computer industry's capacity to step up its research effort and respond effectively to the internal demands and foreign competition. The plan provides a brief picture of the stage of university research in computer sciences. The research plan projects an increase in the total number of doctors to 500 by the end of 1987, compared to 300 if the current growth rate continues. Brazil is likely to continue to import large, sophisticated equipment for a long time. But, as the computer technology develops, the distinctions between mini, midsized, and large computers will tend to blur, and associations between Brazilian and foreign companies willing to share their technology will tend to increase.