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Your comment made me think of Bell Labs. From wikipedia: >Bell Laboratories was, and is, regarded by many as the premier research facility of its type, develop
by programbreeding 8y ago
Your comment made me think of Bell Labs.
From wikipedia:
>Bell Laboratories was, and is, regarded by many as the premier research facility of its type, developing a wide range of revolutionary technologies, including radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, information theory, the operating system Unix, the programming languages C and C++, solar cells, the CCD, floating-gate MOSFET, and a whole host of optical, wireless and wired communications technologies and systems. Nine Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work completed at Bell Laboratories.
- ChuckMcM 8y agoOr Xerox PARC. There have been other attempts (like Interval Research) as well. Always the question of money and focus though. IBM has a huge research arm which is doing amazing things, but their impact on the bottom line is perhaps not as strong as Ginny (IBM CEO) would like? At Sun, when Sun Labs was a thing, there were jokes about "Where good ideas go to die." or something along those lines. Commercial interests have a really hard time seeing value in these things when they are done internally.