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1980s |
| 1982 |
Japan Science Institute (JSI) established with Hisashi Kobayashi appointed as Director |
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| 1983 |
Kana-kanji conversion released for the kanji word processor of IBM 5550 Work Station |
| 1985 |
Composite Editor and Graphics Base Library released |
| 1986 |
Norihisa Suzuki appointed Director of Japan Science Institute
Japan Science Institute renamed Tokyo Research Laboratory (TRL) |
| 1987 |
TOP-1, an innovative, high-performance multiprocessor workstation for the future, developed |
| 1988 |
English-to-Japanese machine translation system, System for Human-Assisted Language Translation (SHALT), developed and used to translate IBM manuals |
| 1989 |
Japanese handwritten OCR system released
CG scenes presenting Edo castle and town rendered for the NHK TV program "Kasuga-no-Tsubone" |
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1990s |
| 1990 |
New object-oriented programming language COB, based on C, designed and implemented |
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| 1992 |
NAND Flash memory based PCMCIA disk card released |
| 1993 |
World record achieved for generation of continuous coherent UV light
Anaake-kun, a product that optimizes the sequence of drilling holes in printed circuit boards, released |
| 1994 |
Integrated medical-image system delivered to National Cancer Center |
| 1995 |
Kazuo Iwano appointed director of TRL
Shu Tezuka granted Inoue Prize for Science for his research on the generation and applications of uniform random numbers
Low power management contributed to the extension of battery operation time for a notebook PC |
| 1996 |
Java JIT compiler developed and released for major IBM platforms |
| 1997 |
DataHiding™, an invisible watermarking of digital video, still images, and audio, developed
Java Mobile Agent: Aglets announced
Pattern-based English-to-Japanese translation engine developed and released as Internet King of Translation
HomePage Reader, the talking Web browser for vision-impaired users, developed and released |
| 1998 |
Continuous speech recognition system developed and ViaVoice Japanese released
XML Parser for Java developed |
| 1999 |
Text mining System, IBM TAKMI developed and introduced at IBM's PC help centers
Vehicle Routing Planner (VRP), a delivery routes optimization tool, shipped |
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2000s |
| 2000 |
Yoichi Takao appointed director of TRL
Low-cost GMR-head test equipment for HGA fabrication lines developed |
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| 2001 |
Liquid crystal display (LCD) with high viewing angle and brightness developed and released
WatchPad, a research prototype incorporating Linux, developed with a watch manufacturer |
| 2002 |
Production Design & Operations Scheduling for steel industry (PDOS) developed |
| 2003 |
Chieko Asakawa inducted into the Women-in-Technology-International Hall of Fame
IBM Active Protection System for a notebook PC shipped
OASIS releases XACML as an OASIS Open standard |
| 2004 |
Kazushi Kuse appointed director of TRL
aDesigner , a tool for verifying Web access for vision-impaired users, developed
Web Services Security (WSS) ratified as an OASIS standard |
| 2005 |
MedTAKMI, text and knowledge mining for clinical and biomedical information, developed |
| 2006 |
Hiroshi Maruyama appointed Director of TRL
IBM P2G, which distributes image data to hundreds of terminals in a short time, developed and shipped |
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