American Express to buy 2 top supercomputers

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American Express Co will purchase two CM-5 massively parallel supercomputers from Thinking Machines Corp. Thinking Machines already has nine sales commitments for its new machines including orders from Sandia National Laboratories; the Los Alamos National Laboratory; the National Center for Supercomputer Applications; the Army High Performance Computing Research Center, University of Minnesota; Schlumberger Ltd; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and Syracuse University. CM-5s, priced from $1.4 million, contain from 32 to 16,000 processors. American Express will not say how it plans to use its CM-5s. Industry analysts believe the machines will be used to analyze cardholders' purchasing patterns.

Purchasing, Product information, Marketing, Technology application, Credit and debit card industry, Credit card industry, Supercomputers, American Express Co., AXP, Supercomputer, Parallel processing, Thinking Machines Corp., Massive Parallelism, Thinking Machines CM-5 (Supercomputer)

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In a world of instant copies, who pays for original work?

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Technological advances in copying electronic and digital information are leading to new ethical and legal dilemmas concerning intellectual property. Large publishers who would like to disseminate their information to as many people as possible recognize that computer technology allows perfect copies to be made at almost no cost. The ease and accessibility of copying may stir new debates about copyright infringement. Many of the laws that govern intellectual property were drafted in the nineteenth century and did not envision current technologies. Apple may alter its QuickTime and Newton technologies because they both allow easy copying of information that could infringe on the rights of other companies.

Prepackaged software, Laws, regulations and rules, AAPL, Electronic publishing, Information management, Copyrights, Intellectual property, Operating system enhancements, Patents, QuickTime (Desktop video software), Apple Inc., Copying, Patent/Copyright Issue, Legal Issues, Electronic Publishing Industry, Operating System Enhancement

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