Gore will Visit Cambridge

Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee Albert A. Gore Jr. '69 will swing through Massachusetts this morning, stopping to open a Boston campaign office and to tour a Cambridge computer firm.

Gore, a Tennessee senator and Harvard overseer, will start the day by meeting with supporters at the Clinton-Gore campaign's new Massachusetts headquarters.

Next, Gore will travel across the Charles River to Thinking Machines, an East Cambridge computer company. Thinking Machines designs, manufactures and sells some of the world's fastest supercomputers.

Gore will likely use his visit to expound on Democratic ideas about economic policy, high technology and competitiveness.

Thinking Machines had sold its Connection Machine 5, described in trade publication as "a sleek black box with red blinking lights," to re- search institutions such as Los Alamos NationalLaboratory and Stanford University. The companyhas also been a pioneer in marketing its hugelypowerful computers to commercial customers such asAmerican Express and Dow Jones.

Multi-Talented

Los Alamos uses the Connection Machine 5 forclimate analysis; Stanford uses it to locate oilreserves. The computer fine tunes AmericanExpress' mailing lists, and searches throughperiodicals for Dow Jones' on-line informationservice.

Thinking Machines specializes in "massivelyparallel" computers. Traditional computers use asingle microchip to do all of their work, whilemassively parallel computers use huge networks ofprocessors that are knit together in complex webs.

The privately held company, whose annualrevenues were recently estimated at close to $100million, was founded in 1983 by Danny Hillis, thanan MIT graduate student, and Sheryl Handler, anentrepreneur.

Gore traveled through Connecticut yesterday onone of his first solo campaign trips. His NewEngland sojourn marks the first time a Democraticnominee has visited this region since last month'sconvention

Multi-Talented

Los Alamos uses the Connection Machine 5 forclimate analysis; Stanford uses it to locate oilreserves. The computer fine tunes AmericanExpress' mailing lists, and searches throughperiodicals for Dow Jones' on-line informationservice.

Thinking Machines specializes in "massivelyparallel" computers. Traditional computers use asingle microchip to do all of their work, whilemassively parallel computers use huge networks ofprocessors that are knit together in complex webs.

The privately held company, whose annualrevenues were recently estimated at close to $100million, was founded in 1983 by Danny Hillis, thanan MIT graduate student, and Sheryl Handler, anentrepreneur.

Gore traveled through Connecticut yesterday onone of his first solo campaign trips. His NewEngland sojourn marks the first time a Democraticnominee has visited this region since last month'sconvention