Lucent An awfully close second for the owner of Bell Labs, inventor of the laser.
Mr. SHURKIN: Well, he was a team leader at Bell Labs in the mid-1940s.
It designed at Bell Labs and manufactured at Western Electric the phones and switchboards everybody used.
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One team packed a high-tech edge: a new microphone designed by Lucent Technologies Bell Labs .
In today's competitive telecom world Bell Labs is far more focused on the marketplace.
"Today Bell Labs is building next-generation networks more efficiently than ever before, " says Netravali.
Following Xerox's success, Bell Labs set up its own venture capital arm in 1996.
Bell Labs created building blocks of the modern world--the transistor, Unix, laser breakthroughs, cellular telephony.
Mr. Shannon built a few more and handed them out to people at Bell Labs.
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It had spread across college campuses because Bell Labs started giving away the UNIX source code.
Three years ago, mobile phones were but a twinkle in a handful of Motorola and Bell Labs engineers' eyes.
CCDs were invented, like so many digital age breakthroughs, at Bell Labs, now part of Lucent Technologies.
"My guess is that the window for DNA computing will close fairly soon, " says Bell Labs' Yurke.
It evolved into a mishmash of businesses--network boxes for carriers, PBXs for offices, phones, semiconductors and Bell Labs.
Execution challenges aside, Riggs views bold projects like Immersive Communications as a boon for both Bell Labs and Alcatel-Lucent.
This vision is becoming reality at Bell Labs, where Rittenhouse is research chief.
Bell Labs also churns out products like PathStar, which turns voice signals into packets for Internet or ATM networks.
The geniuses at Bell Labs failed to see Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ).
Fashioned as part Bell Labs, part groovy Esalen Institute, PARC recruited top young scientists like Metcalfe and let them play.
The fax machine was invented in 1843, and both Xerox and Bell Labs had ongoing projects to fine-tune the concept.
His Dad earned his PhD in electrical engineering, having been put through school as a lifetime employee at Bell Labs.
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Berninger, who performed early VoIP testing for Verizon and Bell Labs, says he has no financial interest in the embattled company.
When Bell Labs, where Unix was developed, wanted to integrate Web programming standards into Unix, it called Morris, then age 17.
The project (Bell Labs declines to disclose its cost) combined the work of physicists, app developers, signal processing experts and video engineers.
But there is one area where Bell Labs, and many other corporate labs from the golden age of U.S. science, often floundered.
Lucent's interest in sea creatures is not entirely academic, despite Bell Labs' honourable history of pushing back the frontiers of human understanding.
Its Bell Labs eventually became Lucent and was merged to form Alcatel-Lucent.
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Mimicking conversation in a virtual room required the Bell Labs teams to process multiple incoming video and audio feeds and handle superfast 3-D.
Chairman Michael Birck, a 60-year-old electrical engineer, cofounded Tellabs in 1975 after stints at Bell Labs and two small Chicago-area telecom equipment firms.
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