NEC Corporation is a multi-national information technologies company headquarterd in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan. It is an internet solutions business involved in the manufacture and sales of computers, communications equipment, electronic devices and software, including the Versa notebooks for the international market and the Lavie series for Japanese market. NEC was also the creator of the Earth Simulator, the fastest supercomputer in the world at the time. NEC is a part of the Sumitomo Group.
In 1980 NEC created the first digital signal processor, the NEC µPD7710. Over the past five years NEC has ranked consistently in the top 4 companies for number of U.S. patents issued, averaging 1764 granted each year.
The company was formerly known as Nippon Electric Company, Limited (Jp. 日本電気株式会社 Nippon Denki Kabushikikaisha), before it was renamed in 1983. It still goes by the old name in Japan. NEC was founded by Kunihiko Iwadare and others. One of the founding directors was from the United States. NEC was established with Western Electric Company to become the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital. Western Electric was represented on the NEC board by Walter Tenney Carleton.
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NEC Global Gateway (http://www.nec.com)
NEC Japan (http://www.nec.co.jp)
NEC Electronics (http://www.necel.com)
NEC Computers (http://www.nec-computers.com)
NEC Europe (http://www.neceurope.com)
Linux on NEC laptops (http://tuxmobil.org/nec.html)
NEC 1899-Early Development (http://www.nec.com/global/corp/history01.html)
Japanese Who Worked For Edison in America (http://www.tepia.or.jp/edjapan/edison1.html)
Instituteresearchers, he says, "work on what they choose; they're scientists." The lack of direction notwithstanding, mainstream and "blue-sky" focus areas have been identified for both of the institute's divisions-computer science and physics.
Researchers get travel budgets; they are urged but not required to collaborate with scientists at the parent company in Japan and at other institutions.
NECResearch computer scientists Steve Lawrence and Lee Giles assessed the performance of common Web search engines and in the process estimated the size of the Web at about 320 million pages (as compared with the largest previous estimate of 200 million pages).
Researchers at NECResearchInstitute have discovered that, despite its decentralized, unorganized, and heterogeneous nature, the web self-organizes such that communities of highly related pages can be identified based solely on the link structure of the web.
The researchers show how the problem of identifying these communities can be efficiently solved by recasting it into a maximum flow framework, and present examples for the identification of communities centered around well-known scientists (Francis Crick, Steven Hawking, and Ronald Rivest).
NECResearchInstitute, founded in 1988 and based in Princeton, conducts basic research in the areas of computer and physical sciences.
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