Former I.B.M. scientist to head Mitsubishi lab
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Laszlo A. Belady, formerly with IBM for 23 years and then - for the next six years - a VP in charge of software development at the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp (MCC), is selected to be chairman and director at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc, Cambridge, MA, which has been set up by Mitsubishi Electric Corp, of Japan. Mitsubishi's lab will specialize in long-term basic research involving computer architecture and software systems. The appointment is controversial because MCC is a consortium of computer companies that aim to strengthen US competitiveness against Japanese technology. Some American scientists are dismayed, seeing Belady's appointment as significant of an unfortunate trend. The Japanese, they say, are attracting some of America's most creative computer scientists.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1991
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Do employees have a right to electronic privacy? The ethics of E-mail monitoring is unexplored corporate territory
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Alana Shoars, who was employed by Epson America Inc, was dismissed after she raised the issue of management's practice of printing out and reading employees' electronic mail messages. Representatives of Epson America will not discuss the incident, saying Shoars' termination had nothing to do with the E-mail problem. Shoars has nevertheless filed a $1 million wrongful termination lawsuit against the company, and her case has brought the issue of employee privacy to the public's attention. According to Shoars, it is wrong to listen in on other people's conversations or read their mail. Others, including Michael Simmons of the Bank of Boston, disagree. According to Simmons, if a company buys equipment and a network, the company has a right to check and be sure the equipment is being properly used.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1991
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PBS series will stroll into 'virtual reality'
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A documentary on 'virtual reality' is scheduled to appear on television at 9 PM on Monday, Apr 20, 1992. The program is part of a five-part PBS documentary series called 'The Machine That Changed the World,' which was produced by WGBH-TV in Boston. The virtual reality segment is about research being done by Henry Fuchs, a computer scientist at the University of North Carolina's Graphics and Image Laboratory. A walk through a simulation of a church and simulations of room-sized molecules will be featured.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1992
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