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A Mathematical Theory of Communication
"A Mathematical Theory of Communication" is an article by mathematician Claude E. Shannon published in Bell System Technical Journal in 1948.
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A. Michael Noll
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Aaron Marcus
Aaron Marcus (born 22 May 1943) is an American user-interface and information-visualization designer, as well as a computer graphics artist.
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Aberdeen Township, New Jersey
Aberdeen Township is a township situated on the Jersey Shore in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Academy Awards
The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.
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Acme (text editor)
Acme is a text editor and graphical shell from the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system, designed and implemented by Rob Pike.
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Advanced Debugger
The advanced debugger adb is a debugger that first appeared in Seventh Edition UNIX.
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Alan Turing
Alan Mathison Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist.
Alcatel-Lucent
Alcatel–Lucent S.A. was a multinational telecommunications equipment company, headquartered in Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
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Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Graham Bell (born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.
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Alexander Melville Bell
Alexander Melville Bell (1 March 18197 August 1905) was a teacher and researcher of physiological phonetics and was the author of numerous works on orthoepy and elocution.
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Alfred Aho
Alfred Vaino Aho (born August 9, 1941) is a Canadian computer scientist best known for his work on programming languages, compilers, and related algorithms, and his textbooks on the art and science of computer programming.
Alfred Y. Cho
Alfred Yi Cho (born July 10, 1937) is a Chinese-American electrical engineer, inventor, and optical engineer. Bell Labs and Alfred Y. Cho are national Medal of Technology recipients.
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Algorithm
In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm is a finite sequence of mathematically rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific problems or to perform a computation.
Algorithmic composition
Algorithmic composition is the technique of using algorithms to create music.
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Ali Javan
Ali Javan (Ali Javān); December 26, 1926 – September 12, 2016) was an Iranian American physicist and inventor. He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. A successful prototype, constructed by him in collaboration with W. R. Bennett, Jr., and D.
Allentown, Pennsylvania
Allentown (Pennsylvania Dutch: Allenschteddel, Allenschtadt, or Ellsdaun) is the county seat of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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ALTRAN
ALTRAN (ALgebraic TRANslator) is a programming language for the formal manipulation of rational functions of several variables with integer coefficients.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.
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Amos E. Joel Jr.
Amos Edward Joel Jr. (March 12, 1918 – October 25, 2008) was an American electrical engineer, known for several contributions and over seventy patents related to telecommunications switching systems. Bell Labs and Amos E. Joel Jr. are national Medal of Technology recipients.
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AMPL
AMPL (A Mathematical Programming Language) is an algebraic modeling language to describe and solve high-complexity problems for large-scale mathematical computing (e.g. large-scale optimization and scheduling-type problems).
Anechoic chamber
An anechoic chamber (an-echoic meaning "non-reflective" or "without echoes") is a room designed to stop reflections or echoes of either sound or electromagnetic waves.
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Antwerp
Antwerp (Antwerpen; Anvers) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.
Apple Inc.
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.
Arlington County, Virginia
Arlington County, or simply Arlington, is a county in the U.S. state of Virginia.
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Arno Allan Penzias
Arno Allan Penzias (April 26, 1933 – January 22, 2024) was an American physicist and radio astronomer.
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Arthur Ashkin
Arthur Ashkin (September 2, 1922 – September 21, 2020) was an American scientist and Nobel laureate who worked at Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies.
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Arthur F. Hebard
Arthur Foster Hebard (born 2 March 1940) is Distinguished Professor of Physics at University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.
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Arthur Leonard Schawlow
Arthur Leonard Schawlow (May 5, 1921 – April 28, 1999) was an American physicist who, along with Charles Townes, developed the theoretical basis for laser science.
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Arun Netravali
Arun N. Netravali (born 26 May 1945) is an Indian–American computer engineer credited with contributions in digital technology including HDTV. Bell Labs and Arun Netravali are national Medal of Technology recipients.
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Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing.
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AT&T
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas. Bell Labs and AT&T are bell System.
AT&T Corporation
AT&T Corporation, commonly referred to as AT&T, an abbreviation for its former name, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was an American telecommunications company that provided voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government agencies. Bell Labs and AT&T Corporation are bell System.
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AT&T Labs
AT&T Labs, Inc. (formerly AT&T Laboratories, Inc.) is the research & development division of AT&T, the telecommunications company.
AT&T Technologies
AT&T Technologies, Inc., was created by AT&T in 1983 in preparation for the breakup of the Bell System, which became effective as of January 1, 1984. Bell Labs and AT&T Technologies are Alcatel-Lucent.
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Audio Engineering Society
The Audio Engineering Society (AES) is a professional body for engineers, scientists, other individuals with an interest or involvement in the professional audio industry.
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Avaya
Avaya LLC, often shortened to Avaya and formerly Avaya Inc., is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, that provides cloud communications and workstream collaboration services. Bell Labs and Avaya are Alcatel-Lucent.
AWK
AWK is a domain-specific language designed for text processing and typically used as a data extraction and reporting tool.
B (programming language)
B is a programming language developed at Bell Labs circa 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.
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Bayer
Bayer AG (English:, commonly pronounced) is a German multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies and biomedical companies in the world.
BEFLIX
BEFLIX is the name of the first embedded domain-specific language for computer animation, invented by Ken Knowlton at Bell Labs in 1963.
Bell Laboratories Building
463 West Street is a 13-building complex located on the block between West Street, Washington Street, Bank Street, and Bethune Street in Manhattan, New York.
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Bell Laboratories Record
Bell Laboratories Record (BLR) was a publication of the Bureau of Publication of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) and Bell Laboratories. Bell Labs and Bell Laboratories Record are bell System.
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Bell Labs
Bell Labs is an American industrial research and scientific development company credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others. Bell Labs and Bell Labs are Alcatel-Lucent, bell System, computer science institutes in the United States, computer science research organizations, former AT&T subsidiaries, history of telecommunications in the United States, national Medal of Technology recipients, Nokia and research institutes in New Jersey.
Bell Labs Holmdel Complex
The Bell Labs Holmdel Complex, in Holmdel Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, functioned for 44 years as a research and development facility, initially for the Bell System and later Bell Labs. Bell Labs and Bell Labs Holmdel Complex are Alcatel-Lucent and research institutes in New Jersey.
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Bell Labs Technical Journal
The Bell Labs Technical Journal was the in-house scientific journal for scientists of Nokia Bell Labs, published yearly by the IEEE society.
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Bell System
The Bell System was a system of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), that dominated the telephone services industry in North America for over 100 years from its creation in 1877 until its antitrust breakup in 1983.
Bell Telephone Company
The Bell Telephone Company was the initial corporate entity from which the Bell System originated to build a continental conglomerate and monopoly in telecommunication services in the United States and Canada. Bell Labs and Bell Telephone Company are bell System.
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Belle (chess machine)
Belle is a chess computer that was developed by Joe Condon (hardware) and Ken Thompson (software) at Bell Labs.
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Bellmac 32
The Bellmac 32 is a microprocessor developed by Bell Labs' processor division in 1980, implemented using CMOS technology and was the first microprocessor that could move 32 bits in one clock cycle.
BELLMAC-8
The MAC-8, better known today as the BELLMAC-8, is an 8-bit microprocessor designed by Bell Labs.
Big Bang
The Big Bang is a physical theory that describes how the universe expanded from an initial state of high density and temperature.
Binary code
A binary code represents text, computer processor instructions, or any other data using a two-symbol system.
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field of science that develops methods and software tools for understanding biological data, especially when the data sets are large and complex.
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Bishnu S. Atal
Bishnu S. Atal (born 1933) is an Indian physicist and engineer.
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Bjarne Stroustrup
Bjarne Stroustrup (born 30 December 1950) is a Danish computer scientist, known for the development of the C++ programming language.
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Blit (computer terminal)
Blit is a programmable raster graphics computer terminal designed by Rob Pike and Bart Locanthi Jr.
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Boolean algebra
In mathematics and mathematical logic, Boolean algebra is a branch of algebra.
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Bourne shell
The Bourne shell (sh) is a shell command-line interpreter for computer operating systems.
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Breinigsville, Pennsylvania
Breinigsville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.
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Brian Kernighan
Brian Wilson Kernighan (born January 30, 1942) is a Canadian computer scientist.
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Broadband
In telecommunications, broadband or high speed is the wide-bandwidth data transmission that exploits signals at a wide spread of frequencies or several different simultaneous frequencies, and is used in fast Internet access.
Buckminsterfullerene
Buckminsterfullerene is a type of fullerene with the formula C60.
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Budapest
Budapest is the capital and most populous city of Hungary.
Business telephone system
A business telephone system is a telephone system typically used in business environments, encompassing the range of technology from the key telephone system (KTS) to the private branch exchange (PBX).
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C (programming language)
C (pronounced – like the letter c) is a general-purpose programming language.
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C++
C++ (pronounced "C plus plus" and sometimes abbreviated as CPP) is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup.
C. Kumar N. Patel
Chandra Kumar Naranbhai Patel (born 2 July 1938) is an electrical engineer.
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CACI
CACI International Inc. (originally California Analysis Center, Inc., then Consolidated Analysis Center, Inc.) is an American multinational professional services and information technology company headquartered in Northern Virginia.
Cambridge
Cambridge is a city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England.
Carbon-dioxide laser
The carbon-dioxide laser (CO2 laser) was one of the earliest gas lasers to be developed.
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Charge-coupled device
A charge-coupled device (CCD) is an integrated circuit containing an array of linked, or coupled, capacitors.
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Charles H. Townes
Charles Hard Townes (July 28, 1915 – January 27, 2015) was an American physicist.
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Charles K. Kao
Sir Charles Kao Kuen as a member of National Academy of Engineering in Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering for pioneering and sustained accomplishments towards the theoretical and practical realization of fiber-optic communication systems.
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Charles Sumner Tainter
Charles Sumner Tainter (April 25, 1854 – April 20, 1940) was an American scientific instrument maker, engineer and inventor, best known for his collaborations with Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell, Alexander's father-in-law Gardiner Hubbard, and for his significant improvements to Thomas Edison's phonograph, resulting in the Graphophone, one version of which was the first Dictaphone.
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Chester Township, New Jersey
Chester Township is a township in southwestern Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Chichester Bell
Chichester Alexander Bell (1848 – 11 March 1924) was an Irish engineer and inventor.
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Cipher
In cryptography, a cipher (or cypher) is an algorithm for performing encryption or decryption—a series of well-defined steps that can be followed as a procedure.
Circuit (computer science)
In theoretical computer science, a circuit is a model of computation in which input values proceed through a sequence of gates, each of which computes a function.
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Claire F. Gmachl
Claire F. Gmachl is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University.
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Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (born 1 April 1933) is a French physicist.
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Claude Shannon
Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist and cryptographer known as the "father of information theory" and as the "father of the Information Age".
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Cliffwood, New Jersey
Cliffwood is an unincorporated community located within Aberdeen Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
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Clinton Davisson
Clinton Joseph Davisson (October 22, 1881 – February 1, 1958) was an American physicist who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of electron diffraction in the famous Davisson–Germer experiment.
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Code reuse
In software development (and computer programming in general), code reuse, also called software reuse, is the use of existing software, or software knowledge, to build new software, following the reusability principles.
Code-excited linear prediction
Code-excited linear prediction (CELP) is a linear predictive speech coding algorithm originally proposed by Manfred R. Schroeder and Bishnu S. Atal in 1985.
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Coding theory
Coding theory is the study of the properties of codes and their respective fitness for specific applications.
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Cohen–Daubechies–Feauveau wavelet
Cohen–Daubechies–Feauveau wavelets are a family of biorthogonal wavelets that was made popular by Ingrid Daubechies.
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Coin flipping
Coin flipping, coin tossing, or heads or tails is the practice of throwing a coin in the air and checking which side is showing when it lands, in order to randomly choose between two alternatives, heads or tails, sometimes used to resolve a dispute between two parties.
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Columbus, Ohio
Columbus is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio.
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Common-channel signaling
In telecommunication, common-channel signaling (CCS), or common-channel interoffice signaling (CCIS), is the transmission of control information (signaling) via a separate channel than that used for the messages, The signaling channel usually controls multiple message channels.
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Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems
"Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems" is a paper published in 1949 by Claude Shannon discussing cryptography from the viewpoint of information theory.
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Communications satellite
A communications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunication signals via a transponder; it creates a communication channel between a source transmitter and a receiver at different locations on Earth.
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Compiler
In computing, a compiler is a computer program that translates computer code written in one programming language (the source language) into another language (the target language).
Complex number
In mathematics, a complex number is an element of a number system that extends the real numbers with a specific element denoted, called the imaginary unit and satisfying the equation i^.
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Component-based software engineering
Component-based software engineering (CBSE), also called component-based development (CBD), is a style of software engineering that aims to construct a software system from components that are loosely-coupled and reusable.
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Computer
A computer is a machine that can be programmed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation).
Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum (CHM) is a museum of computer history, located in Mountain View, California.
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Computer vision
Computer vision tasks include methods for acquiring, processing, analyzing and understanding digital images, and extraction of high-dimensional data from the real world in order to produce numerical or symbolic information, e.g. in the forms of decisions.
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Concurrent computing
Concurrent computing is a form of computing in which several computations are executed concurrently—during overlapping time periods—instead of sequentially—with one completing before the next starts.
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Control chart
Control charts are graphical plots used in production control to determine whether quality and manufacturing processes are being controlled under stable conditions.
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Convolutional neural network
A convolutional neural network (CNN) is a regularized type of feed-forward neural network that learns features by itself via filter (or kernel) optimization.
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Corinna Cortes
Corinna Cortes (born 31 March 1961) is a Danish computer scientist known for her contributions to machine learning.
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Cornell University
Cornell University is a private Ivy League land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York.
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Cosmic microwave background
The cosmic microwave background (CMB or CMBR) is microwave radiation that fills all space in the observable universe.
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Crawford Hill
Crawford Hill, sometimes known in the past as Crawford's Hill, is located in Holmdel Township, New Jersey, United States.
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CRC Press
The CRC Press, LLC is an American publishing group that specializes in producing technical books.
Cryptanalysis
Cryptanalysis (from the Greek kryptós, "hidden", and analýein, "to analyze") refers to the process of analyzing information systems in order to understand hidden aspects of the systems.
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Cryptography
Cryptography, or cryptology (from κρυπτός|translit.
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Daniel C. Tsui
Daniel Chee Tsui (born February 28, 1939) is an American physicist.
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Dark matter
In astronomy, dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that appears not to interact with light or the electromagnetic field.
Data mining
Data mining is the process of extracting and discovering patterns in large data sets involving methods at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and database systems.
Data structure
In computer science, a data structure is a data organization, and storage format that is usually chosen for efficient access to data.
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Daubechies wavelet
The Daubechies wavelets, based on the work of Ingrid Daubechies, are a family of orthogonal wavelets defining a discrete wavelet transform and characterized by a maximal number of vanishing moments for some given support.
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David A. B. Miller
David A. B. Miller is the W. M. Keck Foundation Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he is also a professor of Applied Physics by courtesy.
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Dawon Kahng
Dawon Kahng (강대원; May 4, 1931 – May 13, 1992) was a Korean-American electrical engineer and inventor, known for his work in solid-state electronics.
Deal Test Site
The Deal Test Site (now Joe Palaia Park) is located in Ocean Township, New Jersey.
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Deal, New Jersey
Deal is a borough situated on the Jersey Shore within Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Debugger
A debugger or debugging tool is a computer program used to test and debug other programs (the "target" program).
Dennis Ritchie
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – October 12, 2011) was an American computer scientist. Bell Labs and Dennis Ritchie are national Medal of Technology recipients.
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Diffraction
Diffraction is the interference or bending of waves around the corners of an obstacle or through an aperture into the region of geometrical shadow of the obstacle/aperture.
Digital cinema
Digital cinema refers to the adoption of digital technology within the film industry to distribute or project motion pictures as opposed to the historical use of reels of motion picture film, such as 35 mm film.
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Digital photography
Digital photography uses cameras containing arrays of electronic photodetectors interfaced to an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to produce images focused by a lens, as opposed to an exposure on photographic film.
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Direct distance dialing
Direct distance dialing (DDD) is a telecommunication service feature in North America by which a caller may, without operator assistance, call any other user outside the local calling area.
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Distributed-element circuit
Distributed-element circuits are electrical circuits composed of lengths of transmission lines or other distributed components.
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DNA machine
A DNA machine is a molecular machine constructed from DNA.
Don McMillan
Don McMillan is an American comedian and former engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Donald Cox (engineer)
Donald C. Cox (born November 22, 1937) is an American electrical engineer researching wireless communication, currently a professor at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he heads the Wireless Communications Research Group.
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Douglas McIlroy
Malcolm Douglas McIlroy (born 1932) is an American mathematician, engineer, and programmer.
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Dropleton
A dropleton or quantum droplet is a quasiparticle comprising a collection of electrons and holes inside a semiconductor.
DuPont
DuPont de Nemours, Inc., commonly shortened to DuPont, is an American multinational chemical company first formed in 1802 by French-American chemist and industrialist Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours.
Dye laser
A dye laser is a laser that uses an organic dye as the lasing medium, usually as a liquid solution.
DYNAMO (programming language)
DYNAMO (DYNAmic MOdels) is a simulation language and accompanying graphical notation developed within the system dynamics analytical framework.
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Edward Lawry Norton
Edward Lawry Norton (July 28, 1898 – January 28, 1983) was an accomplished engineer and scientist.
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Eero Saarinen
Eero Saarinen (August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) was a Finnish-American architect and industrial designer who created a wide array of innovative designs for buildings and monuments, including the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan; the passenger terminal at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C.; the TWA Flight Center (now TWA Hotel) at John F.
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Electret microphone
An electret microphone is a microphone whose diaphragm forms a capacitor (historically-termed a condenser) that incorporates an electret.
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Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism.
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Electron
The electron (or in nuclear reactions) is a subatomic particle with a negative one elementary electric charge.
Electron diffraction
Electron diffraction is a generic term for phenomena associated with changes in the direction of electron beams due to elastic interactions with atoms.
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Electronic music
Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation.
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Electronic switching system
In telecommunications, an electronic switching system (ESS) is a telephone switch that uses solid-state electronics, such as digital electronics and computerized common control, to interconnect telephone circuits for the purpose of establishing telephone calls.
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Electronics industry
The electronics industry is the economic sector that produces electronic devices.
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Elizabeth Bailey
Elizabeth Ellery Bailey (Raymond; November 26, 1938 – August 19, 2022) was an American economist.
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Emmy Awards
The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international television industry.
Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Enumerator polynomial
In coding theory, the weight enumerator polynomial of a binary linear code specifies the number of words of each possible Hamming weight.
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Eric Betzig
Robert Eric Betzig (born January 13, 1960) is an American physicist who works as a professor of physics and professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Eric Schmidt
Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an American businessman and former software engineer who served as the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011 and as the company's executive chairman from 2011 to 2015.
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Erna Schneider Hoover
Erna Schneider Hoover (born June 19, 1926) is an American mathematician notable for inventing a computerized telephone switching method which "revolutionized modern communication".
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Error correction code
In computing, telecommunication, information theory, and coding theory, forward error correction (FEC) or channel coding is a technique used for controlling errors in data transmission over unreliable or noisy communication channels.
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Error detection and correction
In information theory and coding theory with applications in computer science and telecommunication, error detection and correction (EDAC) or error control are techniques that enable reliable delivery of digital data over unreliable communication channels.
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Espoo
Espoo (Esbo) is a city in Finland.
Esther M. Conwell
Esther Marley Conwell (May 23, 1922 – November 16, 2014) was a pioneering American chemist and physicist, best known for the Conwell-Weisskopf theory that describes how electrons travel through semiconductors, a breakthrough that helped revolutionize modern computing.
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Evelyn Hu
Evelyn L. Hu is the Tarr-Coyne Professor of Applied Physics and of Electrical Engineering at Harvard University.
Experiments in Art and Technology
Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), a non-profit and tax-exempt organization, was established in 1967 to develop collaborations between artists and engineers.
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Fairchild Semiconductor
Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. was an American semiconductor company based in San Jose, California.
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Federal government of the United States
The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district/national capital of Washington, D.C., where most of the federal government is based.
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Federico Capasso
Federico Capasso (born 1949) is an applied physicist and is one of the inventors of the quantum cascade laser during his work at Bell Laboratories.
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Fiber-optic cable
A fiber-optic cable, also known as an optical-fiber cable, is an assembly similar to an electrical cable but containing one or more optical fibers that are used to carry light.
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Fiber-optic communication
Fiber-optic communication is a method of transmitting information from one place to another by sending pulses of infrared or visible light through an optical fiber.
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Field-effect transistor
The field-effect transistor (FET) is a type of transistor that uses an electric field to control the flow of current in a semiconductor.
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Fluorescence microscope
A fluorescence microscope is an optical microscope that uses fluorescence instead of, or in addition to, scattering, reflection, and attenuation or absorption, to study the properties of organic or inorganic substances.
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Fortran
Fortran (formerly FORTRAN) is a third generation, compiled, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.
Fractional quantum Hall effect
The fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) is a physical phenomenon in which the Hall conductance of 2-dimensional (2D) electrons shows precisely quantized plateaus at fractional values of e^2/h, where e is the electron charge and h is the Planck constant.
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Frank B. Jewett
Frank Baldwin Jewett (September 5, 1879 – November 18, 1949) worked as an engineer for American Telegraph and Telephone where his work demonstrated transatlantic radio telephony using a vacuum-tube transmitter.
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Freehold Borough, New Jersey
Freehold is a borough in and the county seat of Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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French franc
The franc (franc français,; sign: F or Fr), also commonly distinguished as the (FF), was a currency of France.
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French Third Republic
The French Third Republic (Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940, after the Fall of France during World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government.
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Frequency comb
A frequency comb or spectral comb is a spectrum made of discrete and regularly spaced spectral lines.
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Galaxy
A galaxy is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter bound together by gravity.
Gallium arsenide
Gallium arsenide (GaAs) is a III-V direct band gap semiconductor with a zinc blende crystal structure.
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Gardiner Greene Hubbard
Gardiner Greene Hubbard (August 25, 1822 – December 11, 1897) was an American lawyer, financier, and community leader.
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Gas laser
A gas laser is a laser in which an electric current is discharged through a gas to produce coherent light.
General-purpose macro processor
A general-purpose macro processor or general purpose preprocessor is a macro processor that is not tied to or integrated with a particular language or piece of software.
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Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Everest Hinton One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 6 December 1947) is a British-Canadian computer scientist and cognitive psychologist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks.
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George Ashley Campbell
George Ashley Campbell (November 27, 1870 – November 10, 1954) was an American engineer.
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George Clark Southworth
George Clark Southworth (August 24, 1890 – July 6, 1972), who published as G. C. Southworth, was a prominent American radio engineer best known for his role in the development of waveguides in the early 1930s.
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George D. Edwards
George DeForest Edwards (1890 – 1974) was a 20th-century quality control expert most notable for having served as the first president of American Society for Quality Control.
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George E. Smith
George Elwood Smith (born May 10, 1930) is an American scientist, applied physicist, and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device (CCD).
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George Paget Thomson
Sir George Paget Thomson, FRS (3 May 189210 September 1975) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate in physics recognized for his discovery of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction.
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George Stibitz
George Robert Stibitz (April 30, 1904 – January 31, 1995) was an American researcher at Bell Labs who is internationally recognized as one of the fathers of the modern digital computer.
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Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Gerard J. Foschini
Gerard Joseph Foschini (February 28, 1940 - September 17, 2023), was an American telecommunications engineer who worked for Bell Laboratories from 1961 until his retirement.
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Gerhard M. Sessler
Gerhard M. Sessler (born 15 February 1931 in Rosenfeld, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) is a German inventor and scientist.
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Gil Amelio
Gilbert Frank Amelio (born March 1, 1943) is an American technology executive.
Gilbert Vernam
Gilbert Sandford Vernam (April 3, 1890 – February 7, 1960) was a Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1914 graduate and AT&T Bell Labs engineer who, in 1917, invented an additive polyalphabetic stream cipher and later co-invented an automated one-time pad cipher.
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Go (programming language)
Go is a statically typed, compiled high-level programming language designed at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson.
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Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.
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Greedy algorithm
A greedy algorithm is any algorithm that follows the problem-solving heuristic of making the locally optimal choice at each stage.
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Greenleaf Whittier Pickard
Greenleaf Whittier Pickard (February 14, 1877, Portland, Maine – January 8, 1956, Newton, Massachusetts) was a United States radio researcher in the early days of wireless.
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Gulfport, Mississippi
Gulfport is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi after the state capital, Jackson.
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Hamming code
In computer science and telecommunication, Hamming codes are a family of linear error-correcting codes.
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Handover
In cellular telecommunications, handover, or handoff, is the process of transferring an ongoing call or data session from one channel connected to the core network to another channel.
Hanover Township, New Jersey
Hanover Township is a township in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Harald T. Friis
Harald Trap Friis (22 February 1893 – 15 June 1976), who published as H. T.
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Harold F. Dodge
Harold French Dodge (January 23, 1893 in Lowell, Massachusetts – December 10, 1976) was one of the principal architects of the science of statistical quality control.
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Harold Stephen Black
Harold Stephen Black (April 14, 1898 – December 11, 1983) was an American electrical engineer, who revolutionized the field of applied electronics by inventing the negative feedback amplifier in 1927.
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Harry Nyquist
Harry Nyquist (February 7, 1889 – April 4, 1976) was a Swedish-American physicist and electronic engineer who made important contributions to communication theory.
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Harvey Fletcher
Harvey Fletcher (September 11, 1884 – July 23, 1981) was an American physicist.
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Henry Earle Vaughan
Henry Earle Vaughan, better known as H. Earle Vaughan, (February 3, 1912 – March 9, 1978) was an American telephony engineer, responsible for system and software design for Bell Laboratories' Electronic Switching System No. 1 ESS, and for planning and development of No. 4 Electronic Switching System for long-distance telephony.
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Herbert E. Ives
Herbert Eugene Ives (July 31, 1882 – November 13, 1953) was a scientist and engineer who headed the development of facsimile and television systems at AT&T in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933.
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Herwig Kogelnik
Herwig Kogelnik (born June 2, 1932) is an Austrian-American electrical and optical engineer. Bell Labs and Herwig Kogelnik are national Medal of Technology recipients.
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High-speed photography
High-speed photography is the science of taking pictures of very fast phenomena.
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History of cryptography
Cryptography, the use of codes and ciphers to protect secrets, began thousands of years ago.
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History of Linux
Linux began in 1991 as a personal project by Finnish student Linus Torvalds to create a new free operating system kernel.
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History of mobile phones
The history of mobile phones covers mobile communication devices that connect wirelessly to the public switched telephone network.
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Holmdel Horn Antenna
The Holmdel Horn Antenna is a large microwave horn antenna that was used as a satellite communication antenna and radio telescope during the 1960s at the Bell Telephone Laboratories facility located on Crawford Hill in Holmdel Township, New Jersey, United States.
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Holmdel Township, New Jersey
Holmdel Township is a township in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Homer Dudley
Homer W. Dudley (14 November 1896– 18 September 1980) was an American pioneering electronic and acoustic engineer who created the first electronic voice synthesizer for Bell Labs in the 1930s and led the development of a method of sending secure voice transmissions during World War Two.
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Horst Ludwig Störmer
Horst Ludwig Störmer (born April 6, 1949) is a German physicist, Nobel laureate and emeritus professor at Columbia University.
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Ian Munro Ross
Ian Munro Ross FREng (15 August 1927 – 10 March 2013) was an early pioneer in transistors, and for 12 years President of Bell Labs.
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IBM 650
The IBM 650 Magnetic Drum Data-Processing Machine is an early digital computer produced by IBM in the mid-1950s.
Iconectiv
iconectiv supplies communications providers with network planning and management services. Bell Labs and Iconectiv are bell System.
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal
The IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal is an award honoring "exceptional contributions to communications and networking sciences and engineering" in the field of telecommunications.
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IEEE Medal of Honor
The IEEE Medal of Honor is the highest recognition of the American Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Image compression
Image compression is a type of data compression applied to digital images, to reduce their cost for storage or transmission.
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Indianapolis
Indianapolis, colloquially known as Indy, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County.
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Inferno (operating system)
Inferno is a distributed operating system started at Bell Labs and now developed and maintained by Vita Nuova Holdings as free software under the MIT License. Bell Labs and Inferno (operating system) are Alcatel-Lucent.
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Information and communications technology
Information and communications technology (ICT) is an extensional term for information technology (IT) that stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone lines and wireless signals) and computers, as well as necessary enterprise software, middleware, storage and audiovisual, that enable users to access, store, transmit, understand and manipulate information.
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Information society
An information society is a society or subculture where the usage, creation, distribution, manipulation and integration of information is a significant activity.
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Information theory
Information theory is the mathematical study of the quantification, storage, and communication of information.
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Ingrid Daubechies
Baroness Ingrid Daubechies (born 17 August 1954) is a Belgian-American physicist and mathematician.
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) professional association for electronics engineering, electrical engineering, and other related disciplines.
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Integrated circuit
An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip, computer chip, or simply chip, is a small electronic device made up of multiple interconnected electronic components such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors.
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Invention of the telephone
The invention of the telephone was the culmination of work done by more than one individual, and led to an array of lawsuits relating to the patent claims of several individuals and numerous companies.
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James Brown Fisk
James Brown Fisk (August 30, 1910 – August 10, 1981) was president of Bell Labs from 1959 to 1973.
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James Gleick
James Gleick (born August 1, 1954) is an American author and historian of science whose work has chronicled the cultural impact of modern technology.
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James L. Flanagan
James Loton Flanagan (August 26, 1925 – August 25, 2015) was an American electrical engineer. He was Rutgers University's vice president for research until 2004. He was also director of Rutgers' Center for Advanced Information Processing and the Board of Governors Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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James W. Hunt
James Wayne Hunt (August 5, 1952 – March 21, 2021) was an African-American computer scientist and inventor.
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James West (inventor)
James Edward Maceo West (born February 10, 1931) is an American inventor and acoustician. Bell Labs and James West (inventor) are national Medal of Technology recipients.
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Jeffrey Ullman
Jeffrey David Ullman (born November 22, 1942) is an American computer scientist and the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University.
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Jeong H. Kim
Jeong Hun Kim (김종훈; born August 13, 1960) is a South Korean-born American academic, businessman, and entrepreneur in the technology industry.
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Jessie MacWilliams
Florence Jessie Collinson MacWilliams (4 January 1917 – 27 May 1990) was an English mathematician who contributed to the field of coding theory, and was one of the first women to publish in the field.
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John Bardeen
John Bardeen; May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer. He is the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon N. Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory.
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John Bertrand Johnson
John Erik Bertrand Johnson (October 2, 1887 – November 27, 1970) (né Johan Erik Bertrand) was a Swedish-born American electrical engineer and physicist.
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John Chambers (statistician)
John McKinley Chambers is the creator of the S programming language, and core member of the R programming language project.
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John Hopcroft
John Edward Hopcroft (born October 7, 1939) is an American theoretical computer scientist.
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John J. Carty
John Joseph Carty (April 14, 1861 – December 27, 1932) was an American electrical engineer and a major contributor to the development of telephone wires and related technology.
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John Mashey
John R. Mashey (born 1946) is an American computer scientist, director and entrepreneur.
John R. Pierce
John Robinson Pierce (March 27, 1910 – April 2, 2002), was an American engineer and author.
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John S. Mayo
John Sullivan Mayo (born February 26, 1930) is an American engineer, AT&T executive and seventh president of Bell Labs, known for contributions to the computer and telecommunications industry. Bell Labs and John S. Mayo are national Medal of Technology recipients.
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John Tukey
John Wilder Tukey (June 16, 1915 – July 26, 2000) was an American mathematician and statistician, best known for the development of the fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm and box plot.
Johns Hopkins University Press
Johns Hopkins University Press (also referred to as JHU Press or JHUP) is the publishing division of Johns Hopkins University.
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Johnson–Nyquist noise
Johnson–Nyquist noise (thermal noise, Johnson noise, or Nyquist noise) is the electronic noise generated by the thermal agitation of the charge carriers (usually the electrons) inside an electrical conductor at equilibrium, which happens regardless of any applied voltage.
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Jon Hall (programmer)
Jon "maddog" Hall (born 7 August 1950) is the board chair for the Linux Professional Institute.
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Joseph Henry Condon
Joseph Henry 'Joe' Condon (born February 15, 1935 January 2, 2012) was an American computer scientist, engineer and physicist, who spent most of his career at Bell Labs.
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Joseph Kruskal
Joseph Bernard Kruskal, Jr. (January 29, 1928 – September 19, 2010) was an American mathematician, statistician, computer scientist and psychometrician.
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Joseph Mauborgne
Joseph Oswald Mauborgne (February 26, 1881 – June 7, 1971) co-invented the one-time pad with Gilbert Vernam of Bell Labs.
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JPEG 2000
JPEG 2000 (JP2) is an image compression standard and coding system.
Karl Guthe Jansky
Karl Guthe Jansky (October 22, 1905 – February 14, 1950) was an American physicist and radio engineer who in April 1933 first announced his discovery of radio waves emanating from the Milky Way in the constellation Sagittarius.
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Karmarkar's algorithm
Karmarkar's algorithm is an algorithm introduced by Narendra Karmarkar in 1984 for solving linear programming problems.
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Karnaugh map
The Karnaugh map (KM or K-map) is a method of simplifying Boolean algebra expressions.
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Ken Knowlton
Kenneth Charles Knowlton (June 6, 1931 – June 16, 2022) was an American computer graphics pioneer, artist, mosaicist and portraitist.
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Ken Thompson
Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943) is an American pioneer of computer science. Bell Labs and Ken Thompson are national Medal of Technology recipients.
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Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL) is an American research and development facility based in Niskayuna, New York and dedicated to the support of the U.S. Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program.
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Kondo effect
In physics, the Kondo effect describes the scattering of conduction electrons in a metal due to magnetic impurities, resulting in a characteristic change i.e. a minimum in electrical resistivity with temperature.
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KQED-FM
KQED-FM (88.5 MHz) is a listener-supported, non-commercial public radio station in San Francisco, California.
Kwajalein Atoll
Kwajalein Atoll (Marshallese: Kuwajleen) is part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI).
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Laboratory
A laboratory (colloquially lab) is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific or technological research, experiments, and measurement may be performed.
Laser
A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation.
Laser cooling
Laser cooling includes several techniques where atoms, molecules, and small mechanical systems are cooled with laser light.
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Laurie Spiegel
Laurie Spiegel (born September 20, 1945) is an American composer.
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Learned society
A learned society (also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and sciences.
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Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Anthony Stokowski (18 April 1882 – 13 September 1977) was a British-born American conductor.
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Lester Germer
Lester Halbert Germer (October 10, 1896 – October 3, 1971) was an American physicist.
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Lex (software)
Lex is a computer program that generates lexical analyzers ("scanners" or "lexers").
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Lexical analysis
Lexical tokenization is conversion of a text into (semantically or syntactically) meaningful lexical tokens belonging to categories defined by a "lexer" program.
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Limbo (programming language)
Limbo is a programming language for writing distributed systems and is the language used to write applications for the Inferno operating system.
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Limon, Colorado
Limon is a statutory town that is the most populous municipality in Lincoln County, Colorado, United States.
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Lincroft, New Jersey
Lincroft is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) within Middletown Township, in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Linear predictive coding
Linear predictive coding (LPC) is a method used mostly in audio signal processing and speech processing for representing the spectral envelope of a digital signal of speech in compressed form, using the information of a linear predictive model.
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Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language.
Lisle, Illinois
Lisle is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States.
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Lisp (programming language)
Lisp (historically LISP, an abbreviation of "list processing") is a family of programming languages with a long history and a distinctive, fully parenthesized prefix notation.
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Lithography
Lithography is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water.
Lloyd Espenschied
Lloyd Espenschied (April 27, 1889 – June 21, 1986) was an American electrical engineer who invented the modern coaxial cable with Herman Andrew Affel.
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Local exchange carrier
Local exchange carrier (LEC) is a regulatory term in telecommunications for the local telephone company. In the United States, wireline telephone companies are divided into two large categories: long-distance (interexchange carrier, or IXCs) and local (local exchange carrier, or LECs).
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London Mathematical Society
The London Mathematical Society (LMS) is one of the United Kingdom's learned societies for mathematics (the others being the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the Edinburgh Mathematical Society and the Operational Research Society (ORS).
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Long Branch, New Jersey
Long Branch is a beachside city in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Louis E. Brus
Louis Eugene Brus (born August 10, 1943) is an American chemist, and currently the Samuel Latham Mitchell Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University.
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Louis J. Lanzerotti
Louis John Lanzerotti (born April 16, 1938) is an American physicist.
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Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Bell Labs and Lucent Technologies are Alcatel-Lucent.
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Machine learning
Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalize to unseen data and thus perform tasks without explicit instructions.
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Make (software)
In software development, Make is a command-line interface (CLI) software tool that performs actions ordered by configured dependencies as defined in a configuration file called a makefile.
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Marc Rochkind
Marc J. Rochkind invented the Source Code Control System while working at Bell Labs, as well as writing, and founding XVT Software, Inc.
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Marcus Weldon
Marcus Weldon (born 25 July 1968) was the 13th President of Bell Labs.
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Margaret H. Wright
Margaret H. Wright (born February 18, 1944) is an American computer scientist and mathematician.
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Marian Croak
Marian Rogers Croak is a Vice President of Engineering at Google.
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Mary N. Torrey
Mary Newton Torrey (February 2, 1910 - January 7, 1998) was an American mathematical statistician and quality control specialist for Bell Laboratories.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Materials science
Materials science is an interdisciplinary field of researching and discovering materials.
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Mathematical optimization
Mathematical optimization (alternatively spelled optimisation) or mathematical programming is the selection of a best element, with regard to some criteria, from some set of available alternatives.
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Matter wave
Matter waves are a central part of the theory of quantum mechanics, being half of wave–particle duality.
Maurice Karnaugh
Maurice Karnaugh (October 4, 1924 – November 8, 2022) was an American physicist, mathematician, computer scientist, and inventor known for the Karnaugh map used in Boolean algebra.
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Max Mathews
Max Vernon Mathews (November 13, 1926 in Columbus, Nebraska, US – April 21, 2011 in San Francisco, CA, US) was an American pioneer of computer music.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK or MSKCC) is a cancer treatment and research institution in Manhattan in New York City.
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Mendham Township, New Jersey
Mendham Township is a township in southwestern Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, located more than due west of New York City.
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Mervin Kelly
Mervin Joseph Kelly (February 14, 1894 – March 18, 1971) was an American industrial physicist.
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Microprocessor
A microprocessor is a computer processor for which the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit (IC), or a small number of ICs.
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Microwave transmission
Microwave transmission is the transmission of information by electromagnetic waves with wavelengths in the microwave frequency range of 300 MHz to 300 GHz (1 m - 1 mm wavelength) of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Middletown Township, New Jersey
Middletown Township is a township in northern Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Mike Lesk
Michael E. Lesk (born 1945) is an American computer scientist.
Model V
The Model V was among the early electromechanical general purpose computers, designed by George Stibitz and built by Bell Telephone Laboratories, operational in 1946.
Modem
A modulator-demodulator or most commonly referred to as modem is a computer hardware device that converts data from a digital format into a format suitable for an analog transmission medium such as telephone or radio.
Modification of Final Judgment
In United States telecommunication law, the Modification of Final Judgment (MFJ) is the August 1982 consent decree concerning the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) and its subsidiaries, in the antitrust lawsuit United States v. AT&T of 1974. Bell Labs and Modification of Final Judgment are bell System.
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Mohamed M. Atalla
Mohamed M. Atalla (محمد عطاالله; August 4, 1924 – December 30, 2009) was an Egyptian-American engineer, physicist, cryptographer, inventor and entrepreneur.
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Molecular-beam epitaxy
Molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) is an epitaxy method for thin-film deposition of single crystals.
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Montauk, New York
Montauk is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York, on the eastern end of the South Shore of Long Island.
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MOSFET
W and controlling a load of over 2000 W. A matchstick is pictured for scale. In electronics, the metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET, MOS-FET, or MOS FET) is a type of field-effect transistor (FET), most commonly fabricated by the controlled oxidation of silicon.
Moungi Bawendi
Moungi Bawendi (منجي الباوندي; born 15 March 1961) is an American–Tunisian–French chemist.
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Movietone sound system
The Movietone sound system is an optical sound-on-film method of recording sound for motion pictures, ensuring synchronization between sound and picture.
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Munich
Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.
Murray Hill, New Jersey
Murray Hill is an unincorporated community located within portions of both Berkeley Heights and New Providence, located in Union County in northern in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Music Mouse
Music Mouse is an algorithmic musical composition software developed by Laurie Spiegel.
MUSIC-N
MUSIC-N refers to a family of computer music programs and programming languages descended from or influenced by MUSIC, a program written by Max Mathews in 1957 at Bell Labs.
Myriam Sarachik
Myriam Paula Sarachik (August 8, 1933October 7, 2021) was a Belgian-born American experimental physicist who specialized in low-temperature solid state physics.
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Nanometre
molecular scale. The nanometre (international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures; SI symbol: nm), or nanometer (American spelling), is a unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), equal to one billionth (short scale) of a meter (0.000000001 m) and to 1000 picometres.
Nanostructure
A nanostructure is a structure of intermediate size between microscopic and molecular structures.
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Naperville, Illinois
Naperville is a city in DuPage and Will counties in the U.S. state of Illinois.
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Narendra Karmarkar
Narendra Krishna Karmarkar (born circa 1956) is an Indian mathematician.
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National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization.
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National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.
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National Historic Landmark
A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance.
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National Inventors Hall of Fame
The National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF) is an American not-for-profit organization, founded in 1973, which recognizes individual engineers and inventors who hold a U.S. patent of significant technology.
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National Medal of Technology and Innovation
The National Medal of Technology and Innovation (formerly the National Medal of Technology) is an honor granted by the President of the United States to American inventors and innovators who have made significant contributions to the development of new and important technology.
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National Semiconductor
National Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer which specialized in analog devices and subsystems, formerly with headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
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Navistar
Navistar International Corporation is an American holding company created in 1986 as the successor to International Harvester.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson (or; born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator.
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Neil Sloane
Neil James Alexander Sloane FLSW (born October 10, 1939) is a British-American mathematician.
Neptune Township, New Jersey
Neptune Township is a township in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Network architecture
Network architecture is the design of a computer network.
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Network planning and design
Network planning and design is an iterative process, encompassing topological design, network-synthesis, and network-realization, and is aimed at ensuring that a new telecommunications network or service meets the needs of the subscriber and operator.
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New Brunswick, New Jersey
New Brunswick is a city in and the seat of government of Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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New Jersey Institute of Technology
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is a public research university in Newark, New Jersey, with a graduate-degree-granting satellite campus in Jersey City. Bell Labs and New Jersey Institute of Technology are research institutes in New Jersey.
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Nike Zeus
Nike Zeus was an anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system developed by the United States Army during the late 1950s and early 1960s that was designed to destroy incoming Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile warheads before they could hit their targets.
No. 4 Electronic Switching System
The No.
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Nobel Foundation
The Nobel Foundation (Nobelstiftelsen) is a private institution founded on 29 June 1900 to manage the finances and administration of the Nobel Prizes.
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Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Nobelpriset i kemi) is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry.
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Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics (Nobelpriset i fysik) is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics.
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Nokia
Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj in Finnish and Nokia Abp in Swedish, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1865.
North Andover, Massachusetts
North Andover is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.
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Norton's theorem
In direct-current circuit theory, Norton's theorem, also called the Mayer–Norton theorem, is a simplification that can be applied to networks made of linear time-invariant resistances, voltage sources, and current sources.
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Number Five Crossbar Switching System
The Number Five Crossbar Switching System (5XB switch) is a telephone switch for telephone exchanges designed by Bell Labs and manufactured by Western Electric starting in 1947.
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Number One Electronic Switching System
The Number One Electronic Switching System (1ESS) was the first large-scale stored program control (SPC) telephone exchange or electronic switching system in the Bell System.
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Nyquist stability criterion
In control theory and stability theory, the Nyquist stability criterion or Strecker–Nyquist stability criterion, independently discovered by the German electrical engineer at Siemens in 1930 and the Swedish-American electrical engineer Harry Nyquist at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1932, is a graphical technique for determining the stability of a dynamical system.
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Oliver Ellsworth Buckley
Oliver Ellsworth Buckley (August 8, 1887 – December 14, 1959) was an American electrical engineer known for his contributions to the field of submarine telephony.
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On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) is an online database of integer sequences.
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One-time pad
In cryptography, the one-time pad (OTP) is an encryption technique that cannot be cracked, but requires the use of a single-use pre-shared key that is larger than or equal to the size of the message being sent.
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Operating system
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.
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Optical character recognition
Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a scene photo (for example the text on signs and billboards in a landscape photo) or from subtitle text superimposed on an image (for example: from a television broadcast).
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Optical fiber
An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other.
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Optical IP Switching
Optical IP Switching (OIS), is a novel method of creating transparent optical connections between network nodes using a flow-based approach.
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Optical networking
Optical networking is a means of communication that uses signals encoded in light to transmit information in various types of telecommunications networks.
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Optical tweezers
Optical tweezers (originally called single-beam gradient force trap) are scientific instruments that use a highly focused laser beam to hold and move microscopic and sub-microscopic objects like atoms, nanoparticles and droplets, in a manner similar to tweezers.
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Organic electronics
Organic electronics is a field of materials science concerning the design, synthesis, characterization, and application of organic molecules or polymers that show desirable electronic properties such as conductivity.
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Organic field-effect transistor
An organic field-effect transistor (OFET) is a field-effect transistor using an organic semiconductor in its channel.
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Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing
In telecommunications, orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) is a type of digital transmission used in digital modulation for encoding digital (binary) data on multiple carrier frequencies.
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Oryx/Pecos
Oryx/Pecos is a proprietary operating system developed from scratch by Bell Labs beginning in 1978 for the express purpose of running AT&T's large-scale PBX switching equipment.
Osamu Fujimura (scientist)
Osamu Fujimura 藤村靖 (August 29, 1927 in Tokyo – March 13, 2017 in Waikoloa Beach, Hawaii) was a Japanese physicist, phonetician and linguist, recognized as one of the pioneers of speech science.
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Oulu
Oulu (Uleåborg) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of North Ostrobothnia.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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PARC (company)
SRI Future Concepts Division (formerly Palo Alto Research Center, PARC and Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California. Bell Labs and PARC (company) are computer science institutes in the United States and computer science research organizations.
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Paris-Saclay
Paris-Saclay is a research-intensive and business cluster currently under construction in the south of Paris, France.
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Passivation (chemistry)
In physical chemistry and engineering, passivation is coating a material so that it becomes "passive", that is, less readily affected or corroded by the environment.
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Patent
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.
Persi Diaconis
Persi Warren Diaconis (born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician of Greek descent and former professional magician.
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Personal computer
A personal computer, often referred to as a PC, is a computer designed for individual use.
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Peter J. Weinberger
Peter Jay Weinberger (born August 6, 1942) is a computer scientist best known for his early work at Bell Labs.
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Peter Shor
Peter Williston Shor (born August 14, 1959) is an American professor of applied mathematics at MIT.
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
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Philadelphia Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra is an American symphony orchestra, based in Philadelphia.
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Philip W. Anderson
Philip Warren Anderson (December 13, 1923 – March 29, 2020) was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate.
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Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
Phoenixville is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Phonetics
Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds or, in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign.
Phonofilm
Phonofilm is an optical sound-on-film system developed by inventors Lee de Forest and Theodore Case in the early 1920s.
Photoactivated localization microscopy
Photo-activated localization microscopy (PALM or FPALM) and stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) are widefield (as opposed to point scanning techniques such as laser scanning confocal microscopy) fluorescence microscopy imaging methods that allow obtaining images with a resolution beyond the diffraction limit.
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Phyllis Fox
Phyllis Ann Fox (March 13, 1923 – May 23, 2017) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer and computer scientist.
Physicist
A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.
Physics World
Physics World is the membership magazine of the Institute of Physics, one of the largest physical societies in the world.
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Pipeline (Unix)
In Unix-like computer operating systems, a pipeline is a mechanism for inter-process communication using message passing.
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Piscataway, New Jersey
Piscataway is a township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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PL/I
PL/I (Programming Language One, pronounced and sometimes written PL/1) is a procedural, imperative computer programming language initially developed by IBM.
Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system which originated from the Computing Science Research Center (CSRC) at Bell Labs in the mid-1980s and built on UNIX concepts first developed there in the late 1960s.
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Point-contact transistor
The point-contact transistor was the first type of transistor to be successfully demonstrated.
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Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton is a borough in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Principles of Compiler Design
Principles of Compiler Design, by Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman, is a classic textbook on compilers for computer programming languages.
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Proceedings of the IEEE
The Proceedings of the IEEE is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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Project Nike
Project Nike (Greek: Νίκη, "Victory") was a U.S. Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Laboratories, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system.
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PWB shell
The PWB shell (also known as the Mashey shell) was a Unix shell.
PWB/UNIX
The Programmer's Workbench (PWB/UNIX) was an early, now discontinued, version of the Unix operating system that had been created in the Bell Labs Computer Science Research Group of AT&T.
Quantum fluid
A quantum fluid refers to any system that exhibits quantum mechanical effects at the macroscopic level such as superfluids, superconductors, ultracold atoms, etc.
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Quantum mechanics
Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory that describes the behavior of nature at and below the scale of atoms.
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Quantum-cascade laser
Quantum-cascade lasers (QCLs) are semiconductor lasers that emit in the mid- to far-infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and were first demonstrated by Jérôme Faist, Federico Capasso, Deborah Sivco, Carlo Sirtori, Albert Hutchinson, and Alfred Cho at Bell Laboratories in 1994.
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Radio astronomy
Radio astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that studies celestial objects at radio frequencies.
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Radiodrum
The Radiodrum or radio-baton is a musical instrument played in three-dimensional space using two mallets (snare drum sticks with wires).
Ralph Brown
Ralph William John Brown (born 18 June 1957) is an English actor and writer, known for playing Danny the drug dealer in Withnail and I, the security guard Aaron (a.k.a. "85") in Alien 3, DJ Bob Silver in The Boat That Rocked aka Pirate Radio, super-roadie Del Preston in Wayne's World 2, the pilot Ric Olié in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, and Henry Clinton in Turn: Washington's Spies.
Ralph Hartley
Ralph Vinton Lyon Hartley (November 30, 1888 – May 1, 1970) was an American electronics researcher.
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Randomization
Randomization is a statistical process in which a random mechanism is employed to select a sample from a population or assign subjects to different groups.
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Randomness
In common usage, randomness is the apparent or actual lack of definite pattern or predictability in information.
Reading, Pennsylvania
Reading (Reddin) is a city in and the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Red Bank, New Jersey
Red Bank is a borough in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Reduced instruction set computer
In electronics and computer science, a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) is a computer architecture designed to simplify the individual instructions given to the computer to accomplish tasks.
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Repeater
In telecommunications, a repeater is an electronic device that receives a signal and retransmits it.
Research and development
Research and development (R&D or R+D; also known in Europe as research and technological development or RTD) is the set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products and carrier science computer marketplace e-commerce, copy center and service maintenance troubleshooting software, hardware improving existing ones.
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Richard D. Gitlin
Richard D. Gitlin (born April 25, 1943) is an electrical engineer, inventor, research executive, and academic whose principal places of employment were Bell Labs and the University of South Florida (USF).
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Richard Hamming
Richard Wesley Hamming (February 11, 1915 – January 7, 1998) was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer engineering and telecommunications.
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Rob Pike
Robert Pike (born 1956) is a Canadian programmer and author.
Robert B. Laughlin
Robert Betts Laughlin (born November 1, 1950) is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University.
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Robert C. Prim
Robert Clay Prim III (September 25, 1921 – November 18, 2021) was an American mathematician and computer scientist.
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Robert Fourer
Robert Fourer (born September 2, 1950) is a scientist working in the area of operations research and management science.
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Robert Tarjan
Robert Endre Tarjan (born April 30, 1948) is an American computer scientist and mathematician.
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Robert W. Lucky
Robert Wendell Lucky (January 9, 1936 – March 10, 2022) was an American electrical engineer, inventor, and research manager at Bell Labs and Bell Communications Research (Bellcore).
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Robert Woodrow Wilson
Robert Woodrow Wilson (born January 10, 1936) is an American astronomer who, along with Arno Allan Penzias, discovered cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) in 1964.
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Rockwell International
Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate involved in aircraft, the space industry, defense and commercial electronics, components in the automotive industry, printing presses, avionics and industrial products.
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Ronald J. Brachman
Ronald Jay "Ron" Brachman (born 1949) is the director of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech.
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Rudolf Kompfner
Rudolf Kompfner (May 16, 1909 – December 3, 1977) was an Austrian-born inventor, physicist and architect, best known as the inventor of the traveling-wave tube (TWT).
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Russell Ohl
Russell Shoemaker Ohl (January 30, 1898 – March 20, 1987) was an American scientist who is generally recognized for patenting the modern solar cell ("Light sensitive device").
S (programming language)
S is a statistical programming language developed primarily by John Chambers and (in earlier versions) Rick Becker, Trevor Hastie, William Cleveland and Allan Wilks of Bell Laboratories.
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Sam (text editor)
Sam is a multi-file text editor based on structural regular expressions.
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Sawzall (programming language)
Sawzall is a procedural domain-specific programming language, used by Google to process large numbers of individual log records.
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Schön scandal
The Schön scandal concerns German physicist Jan Hendrik Schön (born August 1970 in Verden an der Aller, Lower Saxony, West Germany) who briefly rose to prominence after a series of apparently successful experiments with semiconductors that were discovered later to be fraudulent.
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Semiconductor
A semiconductor is a material that has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass.
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Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device is an electronic component that relies on the electronic properties of a semiconductor material (primarily silicon, germanium, and gallium arsenide, as well as organic semiconductors) for its function.
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Shanghai
Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China.
Sharon Haynie
Sharon Loretta Haynie (born November 6, 1955) is an American chemist who develops biocatalysis for green chemistry.
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Shell (computing)
In computing, a shell is a computer program that exposes an operating system's services to a human user or other programs.
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Shirley Ann Jackson
Shirley Ann Jackson, (born August 5, 1946) is an American physicist, and was the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Shortwave bands
Shortwave bands are frequency allocations for use within the shortwave radio spectrum (the upper medium frequency band and all of the high frequency band).
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Shuffling
Shuffling is a procedure used to randomize a deck of playing cards to provide an element of chance in card games.
Sidney Darlington
Sidney Darlington (July 18, 1906 – October 31, 1997) was an American electrical engineer and inventor of a transistor configuration in 1953, the Darlington pair.
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SIGSALY
SIGSALY (also known as the X System, Project X, Ciphony I, and the Green Hornet) was a secure speech system used in World War II for the highest-level Allied communications.
Silicon
Silicon is a chemical element; it has symbol Si and atomic number 14.
Simplified Message Desk Interface
Simplified Message Desk Interface (SMDI) is a protocol that defines the interface between a voice mail system and a phone system such as a PBX or public telephone switch.
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Six Sigma
Six Sigma (6σ) is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement.
SNOBOL
SNOBOL ("StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language") is a series of programming languages developed between 1962 and 1967 at AT&T Bell Laboratories by David J. Farber, Ralph Griswold and Ivan P. Polonsky, culminating in SNOBOL4.
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is a professional society dedicated to applied mathematics, computational science, and data science through research, publications, and community.
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Software patent
A software patent is a patent on a piece of software, such as a computer program, libraries, user interface, or algorithm.
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Solar cell
A solar cell or photovoltaic cell (PV cell) is an electronic device that converts the energy of light directly into electricity by means of the photovoltaic effect.
Solid-state electronics
Solid-state electronics are semiconductor electronics: electronic equipment that use semiconductor devices such as transistors, diodes and integrated circuits (ICs).
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Solid-state physics
Solid-state physics is the study of rigid matter, or solids, through methods such as solid-state chemistry, quantum mechanics, crystallography, electromagnetism, and metallurgy.
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Sound film
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.
Source Code Control System
Source Code Control System (SCCS) is a version control system designed to track changes in source code and other text files during the development of a piece of software.
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Speech synthesis
Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech.
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Springer Science+Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
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Stanford University
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.
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Statistical process control
Statistical process control (SPC) or statistical quality control (SQC) is the application of statistical methods to monitor and control the quality of a production process.
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Stefan Hell
Stefan Walter Hell (born 23 December 1962) is a Romanian-German physicist and one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen, and of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, both of which are in Germany.
Stephen R. Bourne
Stephen Richard "Steve" Bourne (born 7 January 1944) is an English computer scientist based in the United States for most of his career.
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Stereophonic sound
Stereophonic sound, or more commonly stereo, is a method of sound reproduction that recreates a multi-directional, 3-dimensional audible perspective.
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Steven Chu
Steven Chu in atomic physics and laser spectroscopy, including the first observation of parity non-conservation in atoms, excitation and precision spectroscopy of positronium, and the optical confinement and cooling of atoms.
Steven Cundiff
Steven Cundiff is an American experimental physicist and the Harrison M. Randall collegiate professor of physics at the University of Michigan.
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Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.
Stuart Feldman
Stuart Feldman is an American computer scientist.
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Stuttgart
Stuttgart (Swabian: italics) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
Subsidiary
A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the company.
Summit, New Jersey
Summit is the northernmost city of Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, located within the New York metropolitan area.
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Sunnyvale, California
Sunnyvale is a city located in the Santa Clara Valley in northwest Santa Clara County in the U.S. state of California.
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Superconductivity
Superconductivity is a set of physical properties observed in certain materials where electrical resistance vanishes and magnetic fields are expelled from the material.
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Synchronous optical networking
Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET) and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) are standardized protocols that transfer multiple digital bit streams synchronously over optical fiber using lasers or highly coherent light from light-emitting diodes (LEDs).
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Tampere
Tampere (Tammerfors) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa.
TAT-1
TAT-1 (Transatlantic No. 1) was the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system.
TAT-8
TAT-8 was the 8th transatlantic communications cable and first transatlantic fiber-optic cable, carrying 280 Mbit/s (40,000 telephone circuits) between the United States, United Kingdom and France. Bell Labs and TAT-8 are history of telecommunications in the United States.
Technical University of Munich
The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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Technische Universität Berlin
italic (TU Berlin; also known as Berlin Institute of Technology and Technical University of Berlin, although officially the name should not be translated) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany.
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Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv-Yafo (translit,; translit), usually referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel.
Telephone exchange
A telephone exchange, also known as a telephone switch or central office, is a crucial component in the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or large enterprise telecommunications systems.
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Telstar
Telstar is the name of various communications satellites.
Telstar 1
Telstar 1 is a defunct communications satellite launched by NASA on July 10, 1962.
Terahertz time-domain spectroscopy
In physics, terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) is a spectroscopic technique in which the properties of matter are probed with short pulses of terahertz radiation.
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The C Programming Language
The C Programming Language (sometimes termed K&R, after its authors' initials) is a computer programming book written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the latter of whom originally designed and implemented the C programming language, as well as co-designed the Unix operating system with which development of the language was closely intertwined.
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The Dilemma
The Dilemma is a 2011 American comedy-drama film directed by Ron Howard, written by Allan Loeb and starring Vince Vaughn and Kevin James.
The Idea Factory
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation is a 2012 book by Jon Gertner that describes the history of Bell Labs, the research and development wing of AT&T, as well as many of its eccentric personalities, such as Claude Shannon and William Shockley.
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood is a book by science history writer James Gleick, published in March 2011, which covers the genesis of the current Information Age.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Practice of Programming
The Practice of Programming by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike is a 1999 book about computer programming and software engineering, published by Addison-Wesley.
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The Unix Programming Environment
The Unix Programming Environment, first published in 1984 by Prentice Hall, is a book written by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike, both of Bell Labs and considered an important and early document of the Unix operating system.
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The Unix System
The Unix System is a book by Stephen R. Bourne.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.
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Thesis
A thesis (theses), or dissertation (abbreviated diss.), is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings.
Time-division multiple access
Time-division multiple access (TDMA) is a channel access method for shared-medium networks.
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TMG (language)
In computing TMG (TransMoGrifier) is a recursive descent compiler-compiler developed by Robert M. McClure and presented in 1965.
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TRADIC
The TRADIC (for TRAnsistor DIgital Computer or TRansistorized Airborne DIgital Computer) was the first transistorized computer in the USA, completed in 1954.
Traffic Service Position System
The Traffic Service Position System (TSPS) was developed by Bell Labs in Columbus, Ohio to replace traditional cord switchboards.
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Transatlantic communications cable
A transatlantic telecommunications cable is a submarine communications cable connecting one side of the Atlantic Ocean to the other. Bell Labs and transatlantic communications cable are history of telecommunications in the United States.
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Transistor
A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power.
Transistor–transistor logic
Transistor–transistor logic (TTL) is a logic family built from bipolar junction transistors.
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Trevor Hastie
Trevor John Hastie (born 27 June 1953) is an American statistician and computer scientist.
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Turing Award
The ACM A. M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science.
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TWX (magazine)
TWX was a trade magazine published by the Long Lines Department of AT&T Corporation.
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UMTS
The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is a third generation mobile cellular system for networks based on the GSM standard.
United States Secretary of Commerce
The United States secretary of commerce (SecCom) is the head of the United States Department of Commerce.
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Universal Turing machine
In computer science, a universal Turing machine (UTM) is a Turing machine capable of computing any computable sequence, as described by Alan Turing in his seminal paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem".
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Universe
The universe is all of space and time and their contents.
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or simply Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Unix
Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.
UTF-8
UTF-8 is a variable-length character encoding standard used for electronic communication.
Very-large-scale integration
Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) is the process of creating an integrated circuit (IC) by combining millions or billions of MOS transistors onto a single chip.
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Vintage Books
Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing imprint of Penguin Random House originally established by Alfred A. Knopf in 1954.
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Vocoder
A vocoder (a portmanteau of voice and encoder) is a category of speech coding that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption or voice transformation.
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Volta Laboratory and Bureau
The Volta Laboratory (also known as the Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory, the Bell Carriage House and the Bell Laboratory) and the Volta Bureau were created in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., by Alexander Graham Bell. Bell Labs and Volta Laboratory and Bureau are history of telecommunications in the United States.
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Volta Prize
The Volta Prize (French: prix Volta) was originally established by Napoleon III during the Second French Empire in 1852 to honor Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist noted for developing the electric battery.
W. Edwards Deming
William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900 – December 20, 1993) was an American business theorist, composer, economist, industrial engineer, management consultant, statistician, and writer. Bell Labs and w. Edwards Deming are national Medal of Technology recipients.
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Walter A. Shewhart
Walter Andrew Shewhart (pronounced like "shoe-heart"; March 18, 1891 – March 11, 1967) was an American physicist, engineer and statistician.
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Walter Houser Brattain
Walter Houser Brattain (February 10, 1902 – October 13, 1987) was an American physicist at Bell Labs who, along with fellow scientists John Bardeen and William Shockley, invented the point-contact transistor in December 1947.
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Walter Lincoln Hawkins
Walter Lincoln Hawkins (March 21, 1911 – August 20, 1992) was an American chemist and engineer widely regarded as a pioneer of polymer chemistry. Bell Labs and Walter Lincoln Hawkins are national Medal of Technology recipients.
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Warren P. Mason
Warren Perry Mason (September 28, 1900 – August 23, 1986) was an American electrical engineer and physicist at Bell Labs.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
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Wavelength
In physics and mathematics, wavelength or spatial period of a wave or periodic function is the distance over which the wave's shape repeats.
Wavelet
A wavelet is a wave-like oscillation with an amplitude that begins at zero, increases or decreases, and then returns to zero one or more times.
Westbeth Artists Community
Westbeth Artists Housing is a nonprofit housing and commercial complex dedicated to providing affordable living and working space for artists and arts organizations in New York City.
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Western Electric
The Western Electric Company was an American electrical engineering and manufacturing company that operated from 1869 to 1996. Bell Labs and Western Electric are Alcatel-Lucent and bell System.
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Westminster, Colorado
The City of Westminster is a home rule municipality located in Adams and Jefferson counties, Colorado, United States.
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Whippany, New Jersey
Whippany is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located within Hanover Township in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Wiley (publisher)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.
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Willard Boyle
Willard Sterling Boyle, (August 19, 1924May 7, 2011) was a Canadian physicist.
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William A. Massey (mathematician)
William Alfred Massey is an American mathematician and operations researcher, the Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University.
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William B. Snow
William B. Snow (San Francisco, 16 May 1903 – 5 October 1968) was a sound engineer.
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William Daniel Phillips
William Daniel Phillips (born November 5, 1948) is an American physicist.
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William E. Moerner
William Esco Moerner, also known as W. E. Moerner, (born June 24, 1953) is an American physical chemist and chemical physicist with current work in the biophysics and imaging of single molecules.
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William Gardner Pfann
William Gardner Pfann (October 27, 1917 – October 22, 1982) was an inventor and materials scientist with Bell Labs.
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William O. Baker
William Oliver Baker (July 15, 1915 – October 31, 2005) was president of Bell Labs from 1973 to 1979 and advisor on scientific matters to five United States presidents.
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William S. Cleveland
William Swain Cleveland II (born 1943) is an American computer scientist and Professor of Statistics and Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, known for his work on data visualization, particularly on nonparametric regression and local regression.
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William Shockley
William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American inventor, physicist, and eugenicist.
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Wire spring relay
A wire spring relay is a type of relay, that has springs made from drawn wires of nickel silver, rather than cut from flat sheet metal as in the flat-spring relay.
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Wired (magazine)
Wired (stylized in all caps) is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.
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Wollensak
Wollensak Optical was an American manufacturer of audio-visual products located in Rochester, New York.
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Worse is better
Worse is better (also called the New Jersey style) is a term conceived by Richard P. Gabriel in a 1989 essay to describe the dynamics of software acceptance.
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Yann LeCun
Yann André LeCun (originally spelled Le Cun; born 8 July 1960) is a French-American computer scientist working primarily in the fields of machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics and computational neuroscience.
Yokosuka
is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Yokosuka Research Park
Yokosuka Research Park (YRP) is an area in Yokosuka City, Japan, where many of the wireless, mobile communications related companies have set up their research and development centers and joint testing facilities.
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Yoshua Bengio
Yoshua Bengio (born March 5, 1964) is a Canadian computer scientist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks and deep learning.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
Zhenan Bao
Zhenan Bao (born 1970) is a chemical engineer.
Zone melting
Zone melting (or zone refining, or floating-zone method, or floating-zone technique) is a group of similar methods of purifying crystals, in which a narrow region of a crystal is melted, and this molten zone is moved along the crystal.
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32-bit computing
In computer architecture, 32-bit computing refers to computer systems with a processor, memory, and other major system components that operate on data in 32-bit units.
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5ESS Switching System
The 5ESS Switching System is a Class 5 telephone electronic switching system developed by Western Electric for the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) and the Bell System in the United States. Bell Labs and 5ESS Switching System are Alcatel-Lucent.
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See also
Alcatel-Lucent
- 3B series computers
- 5ESS Switching System
- AT&T Technologies
- Advanced American Telephones
- Agere Systems
- Alcatel Mobile
- Alcatel One Touch 300
- Alcatel One Touch 501
- Alcatel mobile phones
- Alcatel-Lucent
- Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
- Alcatel-Lucent v. Microsoft Corp.
- Ascend Communications
- Avaya
- Bell Labs
- Bell Labs Holmdel Complex
- Ben Verwaayen
- Christel Heydemann
- Generale Occidentale
- Inferno (operating system)
- Juan Pavón
- Livingston Enterprises
- Lucent Technologies
- MCM/70
- Michel Combes
- Nexans
- Olusola Teniola
- Patricia Russo
- Philips Consumer Communications
- Pierre Suard
- QLT Consumer Lease Services
- Reading Works
- Serge Tchuruk
- SpeedTouch
- Western Electric
Computer science institutes in the United States
- AMPLab
- Bell Labs
- California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
- Carnegie Building (Troy, New York)
- Center for Research on Computation and Society
- Flatiron Institute
- Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis
- Information Sciences Institute
- Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics
- Institute for Creative Technologies
- International Computer Science Institute
- Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center
- MIT Center for Information Systems Research
- MIT Computation Center
- MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- National Institute for Computational Sciences
- National Robotics Engineering Center
- New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab
- PARC (company)
- Rice Center for Neuroengineering
- Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute
- Software Engineering Institute
- Stanford University centers and institutes
- TASSL
- Texas Advanced Computing Center
- USC-Lockheed Martin Quantum Computing Center
- University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
Computer science research organizations
- Bell Labs
- COSBI
- Computing Research Association
- Dansk Datamatik Center
- Fast.ai
- French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation
- Future Internet testbeds experimentation between BRazil and Europe
- GroupLens Research
- IBM Laboratory Vienna
- Kestrel Institute
- Microsoft Research
- NEC Laboratories America
- National Computational Infrastructure
- PARC (company)
- Paoli Research Center
- SRI International
- Scientific Research Group In Egypt
- Thomas J. Watson Research Center
- University of Maryland Human–Computer Interaction Lab
- X Development
- Yahoo! Labs
Former AT&T subsidiaries
- AT&T Broadband
- AT&T Communications (1984–2010)
- AT&T SportsNet
- AT&T Wireless Services
- Advanced American Telephones
- AppNexus
- Bell Labs
- Broadcasting Company of America
- Central European Media Enterprises
- Chilevisión
- Commercial Pacific Cable Company
- FX Networks
- Game Show Network
- Hello Sunshine (company)
- Hulu
- IStreamPlanet
- Idea Cellular
- MediaOne
- NCR Voyix
- Paradyne
- Quickplay Media
- SKY Brasil
- Southern New England Telecommunications
- TMZ
- Tele-Communications Inc.
- U-verse TV
- VRV (streaming service)
- Vrio Corp.
- WCAP (Washington, D.C.)
- WarnerMedia
- Woodbury Telephone
- Xandr
- Yellowpages.com
History of telecommunications in the United States
- Airtel (FBI)
- Alaska Communications System
- Automatic Digital Network
- Bell Labs
- Breakup of the Bell System
- Carterfone
- Citizens Telecommunications Company of Nebraska
- Communications Act of 1934
- Davis Amendment
- Defense Simulation Internet
- Dialcom
- Electrical telegraph
- Federal Communications Commission Consolidated Reporting Act of 2013
- Federal Radio Commission
- First long-distance telephone line
- First transcontinental telegraph
- First transcontinental telephone call
- Frontier West Virginia
- Hawthorne Works
- History of AT&T
- History of the telephone in the United States
- Hush-A-Phone Corp. v. United States
- Independent telephone company
- List of White Alice Communications System sites
- MILNET
- Network Equipment-Building System
- New York Telephone Company building explosion
- Overland Telegraph Company
- Pacific Telegraph Company
- Plan 55-A
- Polebridge to Numa Ridge Phoneline
- Radio Act of 1927
- Regional Bell Operating Company
- Russian–American Telegraph
- STARCOM (communications system)
- TAT-8
- Telegraphy in the United States
- Terrestrial Wideband Network
- Transatlantic communications cable
- Tymnet
- Unified S-band
- Volta Laboratory and Bureau
- White Alice Communications System
- Zapmail
Nokia
- Bell Labs
- European Aviation Network
- FBus
- HMD Global
- History of Nokia
- Kuch Kar Dikha
- List of Nokia products
- Microsoft Mobile
- MikroMikko
- Nokia
- Nokia Arena (Tampere)
- Nokia Booklet 3G
- Nokia N1
- Nokia OZO
- Nokia Pure
- Nokia Steel HR
- Nokia tune
- PureView
- The Decline and Fall of Nokia
- Z Launcher
Research institutes in New Jersey
- A.J. Drexel Plasma Institute
- Bell Labs
- Bell Labs Holmdel Complex
- Cape May Bird Observatory
- Center for Information Technology Policy
- Center for Urban Policy Research
- Center of International Studies
- High Meadows Environmental Institute
- Institute for Advanced Study
- John S. Watson Institute for Public Policy
- Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance
- Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination
- New Brunswick Laboratory
- New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Office of Population Research
- Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Princeton University Department of Mathematics
- Ronin Institute
- TASSL
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