San Francisco—Bell Labs, the research division of the “old” AT&T, came up with some of the most groundbreaking inventions of the 20 th Century: the transistor, communication satellites, fiber optics, ...

It’s been said that the best way to stifle creativity by researchers is to demand that they produce immediately marketable technologies and products. This is also effectively the story of Bell Labs, ...

Inside Bell Labs almost 70 years ago, the invention that defined the 20th century was born: The transistor. On a recent sunny April day here in the present, Gizmodo had the rare opportunity to tour ...

Bell Labs was a legendary place, an industrial lab in the outer suburbs of New York where thousands of scientists, working nine to five, changed the world’s technological history. Their inventions ...

Bell Labs has created a tiny new transistor and discovered a way to whip it up in a laboratory beaker. On Thursday, the research arm of Lucent Technologies unveiled a new organic transistor--made from ...

An industry-wide initiative to reduce the energy consumption of telecoms networks was unveiled on Monday by Bell Labs and industry and academic organisations including Telefonica, Freescale ...

Why was Bell Labs so important to innovation and creativity in the 20th century? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better ...

It never became the next Unix, but after using it, I started seeing its fingerprints in places I already use.

After six Nobel Prizes, the invention of the transistor, laser and countless contributions to computer science and technology, it is the end of the road for Bell Labs' fundamental physics research lab ...

The 2 million-square-foot building where Bell Labs scientists helped launch modern cellular networks before it became one of the country's largest vacant office buildings is drawing companies with the ...

Scientists at Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies, have found a way to peer deep inside a semiconductor and create an image of a single impurity atom in silicon, a ...