The R&D organization had an outsize influence on 20th-century technologies. What was the secret to its success?

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, ...

Natalie Gilbert grew up watching and learning from her dad's work solving neural network problems for AT&T's Bell Labs.

A recent event hosted by Nokia Bell Labs highlighted the past, present and future of the iconic company. The 100th anniversary celebration, held at the legendary Murray Hill campus, featured Nokia ...

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 ...

When Louis Brus arrived at Bell Labs in Murray Hill in 1973 for his first day of work, the complex was so full they had to place him on the fifth floor, in the attic, inside one of the storage cages ...

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 ...