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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — 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 ...

Bell Labs’ soaring Atrium, seen here in 1964, was once a gathering place for some of last century’s most vital tech innovators. Today, it’s empty. BY Jon Gertner PAST: In 1961, AT&T opened a Holmdel, ...

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 ...

In the decades before the country’s best minds began migrating west to California’s Silicon Valley, many of them came east to New Jersey, where they worked in enormous brick-and-glass buildings ...

He accidentally created some of the first quantum dots, tiny semiconductors that now power many electronics. By Katrina Miller Together with Willard S. Boyle, he invented an imaging device that is an ...