It’s been said that the best way to stifle creativity by researchers is to demand that they produce immediately marketable technologies and products. This is also effectively the story of Bell Labs, ...

How Bell Labs shaped cellphones, satellites, video calls and A.I. technology. By Steve Lohr, Jeanne Noonan DelMundo and Tina Zhou Yann LeCun helped create the technology behind today’s chatbots. Now ...

Bell Labs, the historic headwaters of so many inventions that now define our digital age, is closing in Murray Hill, its latest owners moving to more modern headquarters in New Brunswick. The Labs ...

Bell Labs is already highly recognized, but in its centennial year, the organization hoped to add more awards to burnish its reputation as one of the world’s leading centers of technical innovation.

In the decades before the country’s best minds began migrating west to California’s Silicon Valley, many of them came east to New Jersey, where they worked in enormous brick-and-glass buildings ...

UK researchers created a lightning-fast way to transmit data in previously untouched wavelengths, breaking a world record. A college newspaper and freshman journalist uncovered allegations Prez Marc ...

Bell Labs began as the research and development section of the American Telephone and Telegraph company, or AT&T. AT&T originally had exclusive use of Alexander Graham Bell's patents on the invention ...