A report on Bell Labs
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Transistor
9 linksSemiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power.
Semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power.
The first working device to be built was a point-contact transistor invented in 1947 by American physicists John Bardeen and Walter Brattain while working under William Shockley at Bell Labs.
Western Electric
7 linksAmerican electrical engineering and manufacturing company officially founded in 1869.
American electrical engineering and manufacturing company officially founded in 1869.
Bell Telephone Laboratories, created from the engineering department of Western Electric in 1925, was half-owned by Western Electric, the other half belonging to AT&T.
Unix
6 linksUnix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser 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.
Holmdel Township, New Jersey
7 linksTownship in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
The township is notable, among other things, for its historical and present connection to Bell Labs.
C (programming language)
6 linksGeneral-purpose computer programming language.
General-purpose computer programming language.
A successor to the programming language B, C was originally developed at Bell Labs by Dennis Ritchie between 1972 and 1973 to construct utilities running on Unix.
Information theory
6 linksScientific study of the quantification, storage, and communication of digital information.
Scientific study of the quantification, storage, and communication of digital information.
Prior to this paper, limited information-theoretic ideas had been developed at Bell Labs, all implicitly assuming events of equal probability.
Bell System
7 linksSystem of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company , that dominated the telephone services industry in North America for over one hundred years from its creation in 1877 until its antitrust breakup in 1983.
System of telecommunication companies, led by the Bell Telephone Company and later by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company , that dominated the telephone services industry in North America for over one hundred years from its creation in 1877 until its antitrust breakup in 1983.
Bell Labs, conducting research and development for AT&T and Western Electric; ownership initially equally split between Western and AT&T
Brian Kernighan
7 linksCanadian computer scientist.
Canadian computer scientist.
He worked at Bell Labs and contributed to the development of Unix alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie.
Vocoder
5 linksCategory of speech coding that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption or voice transformation.
Category of speech coding that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption or voice transformation.
The vocoder was invented in 1938 by Homer Dudley at Bell Labs as a means of synthesizing human speech.
Ken Thompson
6 linksAmerican pioneer of computer science.
American pioneer of computer science.
Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he designed and implemented the original Unix operating system.