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24 unusual facts about NEC


Beny Alagem

Alagem merged his company with NEC in 1996, staying on as president of the division.

Bernard Chazelle

He went on to claim important research positions at institutions such as Carnegie Mellon, Brown, NEC, Xerox PARC, and the Paris institutions École Normale Supérieure, École Polytechnique, and INRIA.

China-Japan Supermatches

The tournament was hosted by NEC; it began in 1984, and has been held 13 times until 1997.

CiteSeer

CiteSeer was created by researchers Lee Giles, Kurt Bollacker and Steve Lawrence in 1997 while they were at the NEC Research Institute (now NEC Labs), Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

CounterPath Corporation

CounterPath's customers include some of the world's largest telecommunications service providers and network equipment providers including Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T, Verizon, BT (British Telecommunications PLC), Mobilkom Austria, Rogers, SaskTel, Avaya, BroadSoft, Cisco Systems, Metaswitch Networks, GENBAND, Mitel, NTT and NEC.

David Webber

He holds two US software patents on XML and EDI technologies that have been widely referenced by 37 other patent applications from leading implementing companies such as IBM, Oracle Corporation, AT&T, GE, SAP, NEC and Dell.

DIMACS

The Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS) is a collaboration between Rutgers University, Princeton University, and the research firms AT&T, Bell Labs, Applied Communication Sciences, and NEC.

DNA analyzer

While DNA analyzing usually done in a laboratory, as of 2007 NEC has built a portable DNA analyzer which able to produce the result within 25 minutes.

DoJa

(The first DoJa handset with DoJa1.5oe is N341i launched in 2003 from NEC, and the first DoJa 2.5 handset is M430i launched in the beginning of 2005 from Mitsubishi.)

Fed Cup

Sponsorship would later enable this number to expand dramatically, first by the Colgate Group in 1976, and, from 1981 to 1994 by the Japanese communications and computer giant NEC.

Kai Li

Prior to joining Data Domain, he served as an industry consultant of AT&T, Bell Labs, Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel, and NEC.

Korg Poly-61

NEC D8049C - 8 bits, 11 MHz (max.), 40 pins (DIP), Supply Voltage = 5V

Mark Westaby

Also in 2010 at the Bodypower Expo at the NEC in Birmingham, he won the strongman competition also organised by Denny Felix, and in so doing earned an invitation to the Strongman Champions League - Ireland competition where he came sixth.

Mossley A.F.C.

Also appointing a new Chairman in the club's main sponsor Sam Rigby of club sponsors NEC and with a rebuilt team finished in 9th position.

North Acton tube station

The support centre for Carphone Warehouse, NEC and numerous other companies have offices in the vicinity.

North-Eastern Space Applications Centre

North-Eastern Space Applications Centre was set up with a joint initiative of DOS and NEC in September, 2000 at Shillong in Meghalaya, India.

Paragon Software Group

Paragon Software provides technology to a number of companies and partners including Cisco, Dell, Toshiba, NEC, Siemens, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, and more.

Pascal Cagni

He established a highly successful pan-European sales and marketing structure, and was promoted to Vice President of Europe for Packard Bell in 1997 after its merger with NEC Computer International.

Pete Kircher

Highlights of this period included playing at Live Aid and the National Bowl, and meeting HRH The Prince of Wales at a benefit gig for The Prince's Trust at the Birmingham NEC, an event preserved on the 1982 album Live at the N.E.C..

Shirane-class destroyer

The Shirane class are also the first Japanese ships to be fitted with 3D radars, the NEC OPS-12.

Societal impact of nanotechnology

For example, two corporations, NEC and IBM, hold the basic patents on carbon nanotubes, one of the current cornerstones of nanotechnology.

Thomas Ebbesen

He then worked at the Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory before joining the NEC Fundamental Research Laboratories in Japan in 1988 where his research shifted first to novel carbon materials such as fullerenes (C60), graphene and carbon nanotubes.

Warkworth 2 dish

It was manufactured in 1983 by Nippon Electric Corp., and since then it was used by Telecom NZ for communication between New Zealand and Pacific Islands.

WGC-Bridgestone Invitational

The event, sponsored by NEC through 2005 and known as the WGC-NEC Invitational, was established in 1999 as a successor to the World Series of Golf, which was also sponsored by NEC.


1988 Holiday Exhibition

The 1988 Holiday Exhibition, was an exhibition held at the NEC in Birmingham in 1988.

Benjamin Benditson

Benditson subsequently had trials with English club Wycombe Wanderers F.C., Dutch club NEC and Danish club Viborg FF in January 2007, but was not offered a professional contract.

Bill Beaney

In 1977, Beaney was hired as the head hockey coach at New England College ("NEC") in Henniker, New Hampshire.

Common Public Radio Interface

The companies working to define the specification include Ericsson AB, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, NEC Corporation, Alcatel Lucent and Nokia Solutions and Networks Co. KG.

Dennis Gentenaar

After a year in the First Division he returned to his former club NEC and signed a contract for one year.

Digital video effect

Early examples of DVE devices found in the broadcast post-production industry include the Ampex ADO ("Ampex Digital Optics"), Quantel DPE-5000, NEC DVE and Abekas A-53D.

Frederick Krafft

During the bitter 1919 party split from which emerged the Communist Party of America and the Communist Labor Party of America, Krafft was one of the 7 supporters of the "Regular" faction headed by Executive Secretary Adolph Germer and NEC member James Oneal.

Krafft was the NEC member who moved for the suspension of the Ohio state organization of the SPA in June 1919 owing to its support of the Left Wing Section headed by Alfred Wagenknecht and L.E. Katterfeld.

Hans Croon

As well as Anderlecht, Croon coached in the Netherlands and Belgium with DWS, VER, HVC, FC Volendam, K.S.V. Waregem, Lierse S.K. and NEC.

Hartmut Esslinger

Other major client engagements include Lufthansa's global design and brand strategy, SAP's corporate identity and software user interface, Microsoft Windows branding and user interface design, Siemens, NEC, Olympus, HP, Motorola and General Electric.

Horacena J. Taylor

Starting in the early 1970s, Taylor has worked extensively as a stage manager on numerous productions for the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) including The Sty of the Blind Pig, The First Breeze of Summer and The Brownsville Raid.

HuneX

HuneX is a video game developer formed as a partnership between NEC Home Electronics, Ltd. and Human in 1992.

Kazuhiko Nishi

In 1986, Kazuhiko Nishi's and Gates' paths became separate and he left Microsoft to devote himself mostly to ASCII Corporation to develop the MSX standard together with NEC executive Kazuya Watanabe.

Mike Zonneveld

Born in Leiden, Zonneveld played in the Netherlands and Cyprus for Go Ahead Eagles, NEC, NAC Breda, PSV, FC Groningen and AEL Limassol.

National Evangelical Church of Beirut

Today, the NEC runs two schools in Beirut and the Johann Ludwig Schneller School in the Western Beqaa District.

NEC Corporation of America

In October 1986 NEC formed a joint venture with Honeywell, HNSX Supercomputers, to sell NEC's supercomputers in the United States and Canada.

Nepal College of Information Technology

Nepal College of Information Technology (NCIT) was first located at Imadol, Lalitpur serving as second campus of Nepal Engineering College (NEC) which runs Masters' Programs.

New England Conservatory

The NEC campus consists of three buildings on both sides of Gainsborough Street, between St. Botolph Street and Huntington Avenue, one block from Symphony Hall.

Patrick Ax

NEC lost to Wisła Kraków in the first round of the 2003-04 UEFA Cup, with Ax making substitute appearances in both legs of the tie and receiving a red card in the second.

Politics of New England

The New England Coalition (NEC) is an educational non-profit organization based in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Robert Hooks

Most famously, Hooks, along with Douglas Turner Ward,founded The Negro Ensemble Company (NEC).

Sauber C31

Unlike previous cars such as the Sauber C29 and to a lesser extent, the C30, the C31 has much more visual sponsorship applied to the car such as Telmex, Telcel, Claro, Chelsea FC, Tequila Cuervo, Visit México, Oerlikon, Nec and Certina.

Shellpot Branch

An additional non-electrified track which serves DuPont's Edgemoor freight siding splits off from the NEC at the Interstate 495 underpass.

Stratus Technologies

Now privately held, Stratus Technologies, Inc. is owned by private equity investors Investcorp and MidOcean Partners as well as Intel Capital and NEC.

Takako Uehara

Takako is also a model endorsing many brands such as Shiseido mainly on Proudia & Tsubaki Shampoo, Dunlop Tyres, NTT DoCoMo, FujiFilm FinePix Camera, SAGAWA, FamilyMart, KC Card, Meiji Chocolate, NEC FOMA and other food & beverages.

The Clothes Show

Such was the success of the show, that in 1989 the annual Clothes Show Live event was launched at Birmingham's NEC, and later a magazine to accompany the programme.

The Price of Loyalty

Keith Hennessey, then a Deputy of NEC Director Larry Lindsey, stated that Suskind made up a paragraph long direct quote from him during a White House meeting that he never actually said.

Tony Chapron

He refereed two more UEFA Cup matches in the 2008–09 season, including the Round of 32 second leg between Hamburg and NEC.

V60

NEC V60, a CISC processor manufactured by NEC introduced in the late 1980s