Bell Labs

Bell Labs

female
Telecommunications history, research and development, bell system, Lucent Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T Bell Laboratories…BellLaboratories, Bell Telephone Laboratories
Bell Laboratories (also known as Bell Labs and formerly known as AT&T Bell Laboratories and Bell Telephone Laboratories) is part of the research...
Ken Thompson

Ken Thompson

male, 66 years old
computer programmer, UNIX, Google employee, Turing Award laureate, ken, inferno…Plan 9 from Bell Labs, scientist at Bell Labs, BellLaboratories
Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4 1943), commonly referred to as Ken Thompson (or simply Ken in hacker circles), is an American pioneer of...
Federico Capasso

Federico Capasso

male, 60 years old
University of Rome, Harvard, Harvard University, quantum cascade laser, BellLaboratories, Harvard University faculty…scientist at Bell Labs, bell, Bell Labs
Federico Capasso has been at the forefront of optoelectronics and solid-state electronics research with continuing inventions and innovations for...
Arun Netravali

Arun Netravali

male
Techfest, OmniCapital, Businessman, IIT Bombay, Lucent Technologies, Padma Bhushan recipient…BellLaboratories, President of Bell Labs, president of Bell Laboratories, Bell Labs
Arun N. Netravali (b. May 26, 1946 in Bombay) is an Indian-American engineer and businessman who is a pioneer of digital technology including HDTV....
Peter Shor

Peter Shor

male, 50 years old
International Math Olympiad, USA Mathematical Olympiad, BellLaboratories, Tamalpais High School, University of California, Berkeley, Putnam Fellows
Peter W. Shor (born August 14, 1959) is an American theoretical computer scientist most famous for his work on quantum computation, in particular...
David Korn

David Korn

male
ksh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni, C shell, Korn shell, Bourne shell, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences…BellLaboratories
David Korn is an American computer programmer, who is probably best known for creating the Korn shell ("ksh"), a command line shell...
Harry Nyquist

Harry Nyquist

male, deceased (1976)
Nyquist stability criterion, Yale University, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Dual, IEEE Medal of Honor recipient, IEEE Medal of Honor…Bell System Technical Journal, BellLaboratories, scientist at Bell Labs
Harry Nyquist, (February 7, 1889 – April 4, 1976) was an important contributor to information theory. He was born in Nilsby, Sweden. He emigrated to...
Douglas McIlroy

Douglas McIlroy

male
Cornell University, Association for Computing Machinery, Doctor of Philosophy, join, USENIX, BellLaboratories…scientist at Bell Labs
Malcolm Douglas McIlroy is a mathematician, engineer, and programmer. As of 2006 he is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth...
George E. Smith

George E. Smith

male, 79 years old
Franklin Institute, Charles Stark Draper Prize, physicist, scientist at Bell Labs, Charge-coupled device, American…BellLaboratories
George E. Smith is an American scientist and co-inventor of the Charge-coupled device. Smith worked at Bell Labs from 1959 to 1986, where he led...

Ronald J. Brachman

male
description logic, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Research, darpa, At&t, murray hill…BellLaboratories
Ronald J. Brachman, or Ron Brachman, is a vice president of Yahoo! Research. Previously, he worked at DARPA as a Program Director of the Cognitive...