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, ...

Bell Labs on Wednesday said it fired a researcher for "falsifying and fabricating" results in 16 papers published in scientific journals since 1998. Bell Labs spokeswoman Mary Ward identified the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bell Labs is already highly recognized, but in its centennial year, the organization hoped to add more awards to burnish its reputation as one of the world’s leading centers of technical innovation.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...