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Another problem is that the Japanese system is technically outdated. Because it was conceived 20 years ago, it is based on an analog system of transmitting pictures. Researchers in the U.S. and Europe have been moving toward a digital system that can be more easily integrated with computers and other...
The success of the Connection Machine marks several milestones in computer science. One is the widespread acceptance of the parallel-processin g approach to computer design. "This was a watershed year for massive parallelism," says Gary Smaby, a supercomputer analyst at the Smaby Group in Minneapolis. There are more than...
Layoffs have been turning the lives of midlevel managers and other white- collar workers upside down. Bruce Deberry, 38, earned $60,000 a year in 1989 as a project manager for Digital Equipment Corp. while living comfortably in the university town of Durham, N.H. Sensing that layoffs were imminent, Deberry...
The big news at the moment is NewTek's Video Toaster, a $1,595 plug-in board that attaches to Commodore's video-friendly Amiga computer. It gives operators a "frame grabber" to freeze images for computer manipulation, an animation program to create flying 3-D titles and a long...
Compared with other technologies that have reached consumers' homes with blistering speed, digital recording has been a laggard. One reason: musicmakers resisted devices that could enable consumers to create free, mint- condition copies of their favorite albums. But last week the hardware makers and the music producers reached a truce...