Jean Noel Tariot, 83 of Duxbury, died on April 17, 2012 due to complications of a stroke.

In 1969, Mr. Tariot and business partner James Upton co-founded International Computer Terminals Corporation in Massachusetts, later renamed Incoterm, which designed and manufactured the first generation of compact high speed digital information display systems and helped launch the era of “intelligent terminals.  In 1978, Incoterm merged with Honeywell as a subsidiary and then later a division of Honeywell Information Systems, Inc.  Mr. Tariot was Vice President of the division until 1980. He had previously worked at Raytheon, RCA, and the Air Force Research Center in commercial display systems and defense electronics. Born in Paris, Mr. Tariot was a teenager when he and his mother escaped occupied France in 1941.  They stayed in Portugal before taking a transatlantic steamer and finding refuge with relatives in the US.  He graduated from MIT in 1948 with a degree in electrical engineering. Later in his career, he served as a consultant and board member for a variety of corporations.   He inherited a love of music from a lineage of musicians and composers.  Mr. Tariot was generous in support of the arts, in particular the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra. He married Ramona Nelson of Fargo, North Dakota, in 1949.

Mr. Tariot leaves  his wife Ramona; his sons Paul, John, and Pierre; seven grandchildren and a great-grandson.  Burial was private.