saroff@jvncf.csc.org (Steve Saroff lac00001) (10/23/89)
200 20-OCT-1989 14:41 NEC Research Institute joins JvNCNET
Press Release
20 October 1989
For further information, contact :
Dr. Doyle Knight, President
Consortium for Scientific Computing
The John von Neumann National Supercomputer Center
Princeton, NJ
Telephone : 609-520-2000
The John von Neumann National Supercomputer Center (JvNC)
today announced the addition of the NEC Research Institute,
South Brunswick, New Jersey, to its regional data communications
network, the JvNCNET. The NEC Research Institute will be
connected by a T-1 (1.5 megabit per second) fiber optic link to
the JvNCNET, linking NEC scientists with researchers at the
JvNCNET's twenty-three universities and industrial research
organizations in the Northeast as well as the entire Internet
community.
"We are pleased that NEC has joined the JvNCNET," said
Doyle Knight, President of the Consortium for Scientific
Computing and Director of the JvNC. "NEC is the fifth major
industrial research corporation to join the JvNCNET". Existing
industrial members include AT&T Bell Labs, Bell Communications
Research, Siemens Research Corporation and Squibb & Sons.
"The JvNCNET is an essential element in the high technology
infrastructure of New Jersey," said Mr. Edward Cohen, Executive
Director of the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology,
a principal sponsor of the JvNC. "It provides the 'electronic
highway' connecting academic and industrial researchers, thereby
enabling the day-to-day collaboration essential for high
technology research and development. I foresee a major increase
in JvNCNET membership in the near future."
The NEC Research Institute conducts basic scientific
research in areas underlying computer and communications
technology. NEC scientists focus on research in human and
machine intelligence, visual and auditory information processing
and the related physical scientists. Approximately 50
scientists are employed at the South Brunswick research
facility, with an anticipated growth to more than 150 scientists
in by 1994. The NEC Research Institute is a wholely owned
subsidiary of the NEC Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo,
Japan, with more than 100,000 employees worldwide.