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Word: nec (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bilingual editor who can fine-tune the output for ambiguities in the ) vocabulary, to say nothing of shades of meaning. "A truly automatic system is a dream at the moment," admits Makoto Ihara, manager of Toshiba's computer product-planning department. Says Kazunori Muraki, a leading researcher at NEC: "Machine translation is only to reduce the work involved in human translation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Trying To Decipher Babel | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...dramatic breakup was the latest of several surprises that rocked the intensely competitive industry this spring. In April NEC, one of Japan's three supercomputer makers, announced a machine it claims is eight times faster than the speediest Cray. A week later Cray's crosstown rival Control Data declared that after five years and $238 million in losses, it was closing its supercomputer subsidiary, ETA Systems. That left Cray as the last U.S. company still racing the Japanese for pre-eminence in what both countries view as a technology critical to the future of science and industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computer Chip off the Old Block | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...NEC Brass Ensemble--Old South Church...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What's Happening | 5/10/1989 | See Source »

...NEC Symphony Orchestra--Jordan Hall, NEC...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What's Happening | 5/10/1989 | See Source »

Gala Chamber Concert--Jordan Hall, NEC...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What's Happening | 5/10/1989 | See Source »

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