 Logo used from 1969 until 1983, featuring the icon designed by Saul Bass | |
_(cropped).jpg) Bell Labs' headquarters in Murray Hill, New Jersey in 2012 | |
| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunication, information technology, material science |
| Founded | January 1925 (as Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.) |
| Headquarters | Murray Hill, New Jersey, U.S. |
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| Subsidiaries | Nokia Shanghai Bell |
| Website | bell-labs.com |
Bell Labs[b] is an American industrial research and development (R&D) company credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others. Ten Nobel Prizes and five Turing Awards have been awarded for work completed at Bell Laboratories.[1]
The laboratory began in the late 19th century as the Western Electric Engineering Department, located at 463 West Street in New York City. After years of conducting research and development under Western Electric, a Bell subsidiary, the Engineering Department was reformed into Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1925 and placed under the shared ownership of Western Electric and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T). In the 1960s, laboratory and company headquarters were moved to Murray Hill, New Jersey. Bell Labs became a subsidiary of AT&T Technologies in 1984 after the Bell System was broken up. In 1996, AT&T Technologies was spun off and renamed to Lucent Technologies, who used the Murray Hill site as their headquarters. Bell Laboratories was split as well, with part of it going to AT&T as AT&T Laboratories. In 2006, Lucent merged with Alcatel to form Alcatel-Lucent, which was in turn acquired by Nokia in 2016.
Its alumni include people like William Shockley, Dennis Ritchie, Claude Shannon and Willard Boyle.
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