from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3636134 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3636134 A paper covering the earlier period is A History of Computing Re

from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3636134 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3636134 A paper covering the earlier period is A History of Computing Research at Bell Laboratories (1937-1975): http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/99.pdf http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr/99.pdf relevant article : http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/opinion/sunday/innovation-and-the-bell-labs-miracle.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/opinion/sunday/innovation-...