In its heyday, starting in the 1940s, the lab created a cascade of inventions, including the transistor, information theory ...

A recent event hosted by Nokia Bell Labs highlighted the past, present and future of the iconic company. The 100th anniversary celebration, held at the legendary Murray Hill campus, featured Nokia ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...