After the breakup of AT&T, much of the assets of Bell Labs (it's people and patents and things) where rolled into Lucent. But Lucent itself kind of melted down during the communications industry collapse in 2000. read more
After the breakup of AT&T, much of the assets of Bell Labs (it's people and patents and things) where rolled into Lucent. But Lucent itself kind of melted down during the communications industry collapse in 2000. It never really iterated fast enough and may have been overvalued. I few close friends of mine in NJ lost a lot of money in Lucent stock. read more
On May 20, 2014, Bell Labs announced the Bell Labs Prize, a competition for innovators to offer proposals in information and communication technologies, with cash awards of up to $100,000 for the grand prize. read more
In 1995, a Bell Labs researcher named Andrew Odlyzko, who worked as a manager in the mathematics department, circulated a paper he had written that considered what was happening to American technology and, in effect, the world of Bell Labs. read more