Quote Originally Posted by net surfer
It definetely doesn't. And it was a bad example because 'e' sounds like 'э' - [кампйутэр].
Hmm... It definitely does sound like that when I speak Ukrainian, but in Russian I've always pronounced (and I think heard) a different sound, which is the same for an unstressed 'e' and unstressed 'и'. Like, in 'компьюТEрные ТEхнологии и опТИмальное управление' I hear the same sound in all the capitalized syllables.