Michel Devoret, a Google Quantum AI chief scientist, John Martinis, who left Google in 2020, and John Clarke win the Nobel in Physics for quantum computing work
all 3 @UofCalifornia professors. Home to groundbreaking physicists, including 2 immigrants leading the world in innovation and possibility, California is proud to dream big and deliver even bigger. @e...
Q&A with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy on working at Bell Labs and Google, building Neeva, Snowflake's business model and its approach to AI, and more
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Lillian Schwartz, one of the first artists to use a computer to make films and who brought together art, science, and tech communities in the 1970s, died at 97
Early in the digital era, she worked at Bell Labs on the intersection of art and technology, making films and at one point arriving at a novel theory about the “Mona Lisa.”
A look back at tech's three eras, from Bell Labs to Facebook, and why the metaverse is the fourth, defined by its bifurcation with the physical world
Ben on how software ate the world (mainly through SaaS): Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Interesting thesis from @benthompson that we will increasingly live online and that's what connects var...
Ann Syrdal, AT&T researcher who helped give computers a female voice and laid the groundwork for digital assistants like Siri and Alexa, dies at 74
a much harder result to achieve, in part because so much of the previous engineering work had been done for male voices.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Daniel E. Slotnik / @dslotnik : Without Ann Syrdal...
Eric Schmidt on growing up in Italy, years at Bell Labs, PARC, and Sun, scaling Google, polarization on social platforms, how tech will shape the future, more
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / SoundCloud / RSS — The son of an economist, Eric Schmidt eschewed his father's profession …
10Gbps over a copper telephone line: A new world record set by Bell Labs
The telecommunications masters at Bell Labs have managed to deliver a world record connection speed of 10Gbps (10,000Mbps) over copper wires. Dubbed XG.fast, the new technology could be used to massi...
Newegg nukes “corporate troll” Alcatel in third patent appeal win this year
Bell Labs shut down in 2006. Today, Alcatel-Lucent uses patents that originated at the labs to file lawsuits. — Lawrence Aberle / Wikipedia — In 2011, Alcatel-Lucent had American e-commerce on th...
Dennis Ritchie 1941-2011: Message from Jeong Kim
Dennis Ritchie (right) receiving the Japan Prize in May 2011 — [Message from Jeong Kim, President, Bell Labs, to our employees] — It is with great sadness that I inform you that Dennis Ritchie has...