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PORTLAND, Ore. — Bell Labs has been reborn, once again aiming to solve the industry's biggest challenges with focused basic research associated with

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Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1947. William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain, co-inventors of the first transistor, initially fought over whose name got to appear on the patent application. This dispute led Bardeen (far left) to leave for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where the engineering quadrangle would eventually be called in his namesake. However, in 1956 when the trio was honored "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of…

Similarly styled corporate group photos from the 1950s and 60s, emphasizing the long, windowless hallway of the office building. The photos come

In 1967, Lawrence ‘Larry’ Luckham was an operations manager at Bell Labs in Oakland, California. He brought a camera into work to capture a day in the life…

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Our connected world is about to go hyperbolic. The changes wrought by a nexus of global, high-speed connectivity, billions of connected devices (IoT), cloud services and non-stop data streaming, collection and big data analytics will bring unprecedented stress on network operators and opportunities for business automation and efficiency. It’s a confluence of changes the president of Bell Labs contends will lead to a “new technological revolution” analogous to the agricultural or industrial…

“In the late ’60’s I worked for Bell Labs for a few years managing a data center and developing an ultra high speed information retrieval system,” says Lawrence Luckham (born July 12, 1943). “It was the days of beehive hair on the women and big mainframe computers. One day I took a camera to … Continue reading "People Of Bell Labs In The 1960s"