Industrial research has a long and influential history -- IBM, AT&T's Bell Labs, MS Research -- all doing pure research with generous budgets. But if their wor

Industrial research has a long and influential history -- IBM, AT&T's Bell Labs, MS Research -- all doing pure research with generous budgets. But if their work is published by the IEEE CS or the ACM, you may not be able to read it. This situation has improved a lot in recent years as many authors will post copies on websites they control. But that doesn't account for the decades of work otherwise unavailable for direct reference.