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Really part of another era, where AT&T sunk billions into the labs just for pure research. If only corporations could be a far seeing today.
The building is featured prominently in the show Severance as the hq of Lumon.
I went to Holmdel High School, and my girlfriend’s dad was a researcher at this facility, he invented a delta wave modulation technique in the 60’s that was (is?) used by NASA for certain spaceship comms. I got to visit him once or twice here, it was truly an inspiring building with all of the open air quality and glass everywhere. Really part of another era, where AT&T sunk billions into the labs just for pure resea…
We can probably get such things back, but they are not Free exactly.
RCA had similar labs, but I think changes to the tax code makes them less worthwhile to do today as well.
I went to Holmdel High School, and my girlfriend’s dad was a researcher at this facility, he invented a delta wave modulation technique in the 60’s that was (is?) used by NASA for certain spaceship comms. I got to visit him once or twice here, it was truly an inspiring building with all of the open air quality and glass everywhere. Really part of another era, where AT&T sunk billions into the labs just for pure resea…
My hope is that we can establish a similar model for biology, since many challenges in that domain are pre-commercial but not at the appropriate scale for academic labs.
The Bell Labs Holmdel Complex is something that I find myself unexpectedly stumbling over on the Internet every few years or so. First time some circa 10 years ago, when they uploaded a 1973 era training video for the computing services to `AT&T tech channel`:
I had a job offer to join Nvidia's office there years ago. Worst financial decision of my life not taking it.
Fascinating to see a couple recent photos and find out what happened to this place. The Bell Labs Holmdel Complex is something that I find myself unexpectedly stumbling over on the Internet every few years or so. First time some circa 10 years ago, when they uploaded a 1973 era training video for the computing services to `AT&T tech channel`: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMYiktO0D64 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
https://youtu.be/HMYiktO0D64?t=339
I think it's this photo:
Her photo is the only personal item I see anywhere in the two videos.
I went to Holmdel High School, and my girlfriend’s dad was a researcher at this facility, he invented a delta wave modulation technique in the 60’s that was (is?) used by NASA for certain spaceship comms. I got to visit him once or twice here, it was truly an inspiring building with all of the open air quality and glass everywhere. Really part of another era, where AT&T sunk billions into the labs just for pure resea…
I went to Holmdel High School, and my girlfriend’s dad was a researcher at this facility, he invented a delta wave modulation technique in the 60’s that was (is?) used by NASA for certain spaceship comms. I got to visit him once or twice here, it was truly an inspiring building with all of the open air quality and glass everywhere. Really part of another era, where AT&T sunk billions into the labs just for pure resea…
Whether or not AT&T was far-seeing, they had a mandate to design and deliver universal telephone service, and cost-plus deal to pay for it, so it made sense to buy nice expensive things. Even when the mission was fulfilled and the economy started to restructure the company, it ran along for at least another 10 or 15 years before the real disruption started (the 1996 breakup that turned Bell Labs into Lucent). And eve…