Bell Labs: An Institute of Creative Technology (2015)
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Bell Labs: An Institute of Creative Technology (2015)
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Re: Bell Labs: An Institute of Creative Technology (2015)
#2The term Bell Labs is used today mostly for advertisement. It hasn’t long produced much. It became Alcatel Lucent and now Nokia, not known as a particularly innovative company.
Re: Bell Labs: An Institute of Creative Technology (2015)
#3Too young to have been there, and too young not to take that type of progress that came from Bell Labs for granted, - I now realize that 20th century progress came, not from natural competition, but from the strong forcing function of utility-guided free research.
After 20 years of hoping for a Bell Labs to magically show up again, I now work to emulate this culture but with a focus on energy systems that has the same characteristics as combustion engines but with 10x power/energy-density (and zero emissions).
If this resonates with anyone here, feel free to reach out.
Re: Bell Labs: An Institute of Creative Technology (2015)
#4The term Bell Labs is used today mostly for advertisement. It hasn’t long produced much. It became Alcatel Lucent and now Nokia, not known as a particularly innovative company.
Well I guess the author of the blog post agrees, since he talks about "its demise in the 1980s". Probably a lot of things have changed since then and honestly I am kinda curious about it.
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#5Too young to have been there, and too young not to take that type of progress that came from Bell Labs for granted, - I now realize that 20th century progress came, not from natural competition, but from the strong forcing function of utility-guided free research. After 20 years of hoping for a Bell Labs to magically show up again, I now work to emulate this culture but with a focus on energy systems that has the sam…
Just a heads up; the "About Morten" page of your website is just lorem ipsum
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#6Bell Labs was a name when my dad was a lineman then did I’m not sure what in the Bay Area between Sacramento and SF. Management stuff I guess (I was young). But between him and my mother working for AT&T … it wasn’t bell labs but we had a terminal and modem at the house before those were common.
I may have done some exploring.
For me in my college years, it was Xerox Parc (well past the heyday of the mouse and such) working in image compression. Parc was still an entity.
Raw research is what I miss. No one really does it anymore.
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#7Too young to have been there, and too young not to take that type of progress that came from Bell Labs for granted, - I now realize that 20th century progress came, not from natural competition, but from the strong forcing function of utility-guided free research. After 20 years of hoping for a Bell Labs to magically show up again, I now work to emulate this culture but with a focus on energy systems that has the sam…
Just a heads up; the "About Morten" page of your website is just lorem ipsum
Thanks, yes, we are pretty early setting this up, you can find me here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skaersoe/
Re: Bell Labs: An Institute of Creative Technology (2015)
#8My family lived just down the road from Bell Labs in Murray Hills, NJ, in 1978. One of my fondest memories of that period is visiting Bell Labs for an open day.
We saw displays of their research work and got to talk to some of the researchers. Some was fundamental semiconductor physics (which my dad loved, as he had a PhD in the area). Much was about the practicalities of running a telephone network. And a few displays were a glimpse of the future. Using the prototype video phone felt like being in an episode of the Jetsons!
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#9ATT has a bunch of Bell Labs stuff on their Youtube channel, it's all a pro watch. This is one of my favorites, about people submitting their code to get processed at their computing center:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMYiktO0D64
Watching it made me realize a lot of batch-esque things like Hadoop and Spark aren't too far off, just more automated.
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