NEC Laboratories America teams enjoyed volleyball, kayaking, Topgolf, a hike, a potluck, and karaoke this summer in San Jose and Princeton.

NEC Laboratories America splits its Optical Networking and Sensing department into two new groups focused on optical computing and sensing research.

NEC Laboratories America researchers present at ECOC 2026, sharing advances in fiber optic sensing, submarine cables, and AI-driven networks.

NEC Laboratories America wins a 2026 Edison Patent Award for a bidirectional fiber design enabling simultaneous optical communication and sensing.

We want to take a moment to express our sincere gratitude to the amazing group of interns who joined us at Princeton and San Jose campuses this summer.

HorizonWeaver edits driving scenes with instruction-guided AI, improving realism and generalization for autonomous vehicle testing and simulation.

NEC Labs America and Verizon researchers show how deployed telecom fiber can sense traffic, construction, and cable damage across 500 km of live network.

How hardware and software determine what research ideas succeed and fail.

Our researchers present accepted papers at ACL 2026 in San Diego, covering LLM, cultural alignment, and chain-of-thought reasoning.

We introduce a rule-driven retrieval-augmented generation framework that routes queries between documents and databases for better, faster answers.

NEC Labs America is heading to Denver for CVPR 2026, one of the most prestigious gatherings in computer vision, machine learning, and pattern recognition.

NEC Laboratories America introduces a distillation framework that turns powerful offline video AI into real-time streaming models without rebuilding from scratch or sacrificing accuracy.

NEC Labs America supports NASA’s Artemis missions, helping analyze complex spacecraft data to improve safety, reliability, and mission readiness.

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AI interpretability isn’t enough. Discover how model semantics reveals what AI systems truly represent and why it matters.

Explore the funniest April Fools’ Day hoaxes, from Google’s iconic pranks to clever tech jokes that blur the line between real and absurd.

Read about influential AI pioneers from NEC Labs America including Yann LeCun, Vladimir Vapnik, and Léon Bottou, advancing machine learning research.

Explore how Black innovators shaped AI, computing, GPS, and scientific discovery, and how their work continues to inspire modern technology.