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NEC Laboratories America Researchers Win a 2026 Edison Patent Award for Optical Fiber Innovation

NEC Laboratories America Researchers Win a 2026 Edison Patent Award for Optical Fiber Innovation

NEC Laboratories America will receive a 2026 Edison Patent Award for a patent that lets optical fiber carry both data communications and distributed sensing at once, reducing interference through counter-propagation and standard WDM filtering, validated across long distances of field fiber.

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Summer Interns 2026

Summer Interns 2026

Learn about the amazing group of interns who joined us at Princeton and San Jose campuses this summer. Their hard work, fresh perspectives, and dedication have truly made an impact across the board, from cutting-edge research projects to innovative software development initiatives.

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Teaching AI to Edit Driving Scenes It Has Never Seen with HorizonWeaver

Teaching AI to Edit Driving Scenes It Has Never Seen with HorizonWeaver

Our HorizonWeaver software edits driving scenes with instruction-guided AI, adding traffic, changing weather, and generalizing to unseen roads, all while preserving the safety-critical details that keep autonomous vehicle testing honest.

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HIPES 2026

Giuseppe Coviello Presents at HiPES 2026 | Euro-Par in Pisa, Italy on August 25th

Giuseppe Coviello of NEC Laboratories America presents "Völ: A Domain-Specific Language and Runtime for AI-Native Workflows" at HiPES 2026, held alongside Euro-Par in Pisa, Italy on August 25th. Völ lets developers describe AI workflows declaratively, leaving execution to the runtime.

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ICML 2026 SMM

NEC Labs America Attends ICML 2026 Seoul, South Korea July 6-11, 2026

NEC Laboratories America researchers are heading to Seoul this July for ICML 2026, the Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning. One of the most prestigious gatherings in the field, ICML draws academic and industry researchers from around the world to share work spanning machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science, and their many applications.

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ACL 2026

NEC Labs America Attends ACL 2026 San Diego July 2-7, 2026

NEC Laboratories America heads to ACL 2026 in San Diego, California, July 2–7, to present accepted papers spanning knowledge updating and memory control in large language models, task-aware cultural alignment, uncertainty-aware reasoning, and adaptive chain-of-thought optimization, representing some of the most active frontiers in NLP and AI research today.

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We solve fundamental challenges in computer vision, with a focus on understanding and interaction in 3D scenes, representation learning in visual and multimodal data, learning across domains and tasks, as well as responsible AI.

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