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AT&T spun off Bell Labs in the 90's as part of Lucent. Lucent was acquired by Alcatel. Alcatel shut down Bell labs in 2008.
by nhebb 13y ago
AT&T spun off Bell Labs in the 90's as part of Lucent. Lucent was acquired by Alcatel. Alcatel shut down Bell labs in 2008.
- aray 13y agoAnd of the computer science and other researchers that were at Bell Labs at the time, many now work at Google.
- wetmore 13y agoAnd then they started patent trolling with the trove of patents they acquired.
- tomphoolery 13y agoDoesn't say that on Wikipedia, did I miss something? Looks to me like they're just shifting Bell Labs' focus from basic scientific research and focusing all research into computer science aspects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs#2000s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs#2000s
- parasubvert 13y agoAT&T also started and continued "AT&T labs" in 1996, which still exists, and was populated by many ex-Bell Labs folks.