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Ian Ross, Who Led Bell Labs, Dies at 85
- nishantmodak 14y ago“If we had had the same progress in the aircraft industry, you and I could be flying between London and New York in 500,000-seat planes and the fare would be about 25 cents,” he once said. What kind of progress/innovation does he refer to in this?
- rm445 14y agoAt a guess, transistors on a die.
- nonamegiven 14y agoENIAC to your phone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selectron_tube https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selectron_tube
- ColinWright 14y ago"It's a foolish thing to tell a research person what the problem is - you'll get the answer to that problem and miss a brilliant discovery in the process," Dr. Ross said. Priceless.
- vanderZwan 14y agoHe sounds like the perfect boss for an R&D department. I never heard of him before, but now I feel like back when Dennis Ritchie passed away unnoticed outside of the tech crowd, while everyone was mourning for Steve Jobs.
- jnazario 14y agoa great view inside of bell labs in its heyday is the book "three degrees above zero". http://books.google.com/books/about/Three_Degrees_Above_Zero.html?id=qM_eAAAACAAJ http://books.google.com/books/about/Three_Degrees_Above_Zero... it sounds like the kind of place i would have liked to have worked. not sure if any place with that magic (or PARC's magic) still exist in the corporate world.
- dman 14y agoMS research probably comes closest.