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...NEC Contemporary Ensemble--performs fanfares composed by NEC faculty members and works by Kirchner, Villa-Lobos, and Reynolds. Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St., Boston. Thursday, Feb. 20, 8 p.m. Free...
...have endorsed the concept (IBM by forming a joint venture in September with Thinking Machines), and even Cray Research has begun work on a massively parallel supercomputer. Japan has selected the technology as the target for one of its long-term research undertakings, and at least three Japanese manufacturers -- NEC, Hitachi and Fujitsu -- are busy making their own Connection Machine-like computers...
Meanwhile, a surprising number of companies are developing programs to run on the current machines. Among them are reference-book publishers like Britannica and Grolier, magazine publishers like Time Warner and National Geographic, film companies like Lucasfilm and Disney, electronics manufacturers like Sony, Fujitsu and NEC, as well as a long list of software publishers...
...system, running on U.S. equipment (the name of the supplier is an Israeli secret), to monitor the movement of Palestinians living in the occupied territories. Singapore, known for its strict regulation of everything from littering to drug peddling, has purchased more than $12 million worth of computer equipment from NEC, including a machine-readable ID-card system (with laser-engraved thumbprint) and an automated fingerprint-identification system...
...death squads have been linked to hundreds of extrajudicial executions and "disappearances," purchased computer surveillance software from Israel in the early 1980s. Within the next few weeks, Taiwan is expected to award contracts worth $270 million for its own "residential-information system." Among the bidders: Unisys, Digital Equipment Corp., NEC...