How Bell Labs shaped cellphones, satellites, video calls and A.I. technology. By Steve Lohr, Jeanne Noonan DelMundo and Tina Zhou Yann LeCun helped create the technology behind today’s chatbots. Now ...

When Louis Brus arrived at Bell Labs in Murray Hill in 1973 for his first day of work, the complex was so full they had to place him on the fifth floor, in the attic, inside one of the storage cages ...

Bell Labs began as the research and development section of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, or AT&T. AT&T originally had exclusive use of Alexander Graham Bell's patents on the invention ...

Let us now praise a notorious monopoly: Ma Bell. All those dreary monthly phone bills made possible Bell Laboratories, "a factory for ideas," as Arthur C. Clarke once put it. At its height, the campus ...

This article is more than 8 years old. Before answering this question, let’s define a few terms and see what this MIMO story is all about. So, opposed to SISO (single input single output) systems, ...

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

Chemist and inventor Walter Lincoln Hawkins was as notable for his scientific achievements— which include inventing durable coating for phone cables — as he was for being Bell Labs’ first Black ...

There was a time when every big company had a significant research and development arm. Perhaps the most famous of these was Bell Labs. Although some inventions are inevitably disputed, Bell Labs can ...