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I think you're trying to make a joke, but AT&T's Bell Labs was one of the greatest centers of innovation in engineering and applied mathematics of the 20th cent
by freyr 11y ago
I think you're trying to make a joke, but AT&T's Bell Labs was one of the greatest centers of innovation in engineering and applied mathematics of the 20th century. The output was remarkable.
- chris_wot 11y agoI guffawed, but then I remembered that these same people gave us sendmail.
- freyr 11y agoSendmail? No, but they invented the transistor. And UNIX. And introduced the discipline of information theory. Confirmed the wave nature of electrons. Pioneered cell-based (cellular) communications. Invented the solar cell. And the laser. Created the first trans-Atlantic communication cable. The first communication satellite. The C programming language.