BYHeath Row Relevancy Score: 100 Mon Mar 22, 2004 at 1:15 PM
The Star-Ledger this weekend ran an interesting article about the rise and fall of AT&T Labs, nee Bell Labs. Tasked a decade ago to invent the future of telecommunications, the research wing is quickly dissolving as its top talent ...READ»
Your article on Bell Labs innovation ("Mad Scientist," February) was spot-on. The notion of approaching innovation systematically and being ruthless about the allocation of resources to it (plus ensuring that the established ...READ»
BYHeath Row Relevancy Score: 100 Wed Jun 14, 2006 at 6:22 PM
The news that Bell Labs is going to be torn down makes me sad. The storied site of many technological inventions, Bell Labs was a throwback to when large corporations actually invested R&D dollars with the farflung future -- not the ...READ»
BY Jon Gertner Relevancy Score: 91 Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 6:05 PM
Can legendary Bell Labs--and its struggling parent, Alcatel-Lucent--be saved by a "crazy risk taker" who's betting that innovation can be captured in a mathematical formula?READ»
BYHeath Row Relevancy Score: 90 Sat Apr 3, 2004 at 2:28 PM
After lunch today at WTF 2004, there were several short, sharp presentations in which speakers were limited to a four-minute time slot. What follows are partial transcripts of the first round of talks, which addressed open-source ...READ»
BYHeath Row Relevancy Score: 81 Sat Apr 3, 2004 at 8:13 AM
This weekend I am in Westchester County, New York, for WTF 2004, a grassroots gathering of telecom practitioners and thinkers. The conference has been called a "TED for the Bell Labs set," and the agenda reflects a wide-ranging look ...READ»
How do you sell an idea at work?
It's an interesting and important question for people hell bent on making a difference.
In "What's The Big Idea" by Thomas H. Davenport and Laurence Prusak, there is some great advice. The best of ...READ»
Every year, Thomson Scientific, a division of Thomson Reuters, attempts to predict who will win the Nobel prizes in the medicine, chemistry, physics, and economics categories a few weeks before the official list is released in ...READ»
BYJoshua Schuler Relevancy Score: 59 Wed Nov 26, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Not surprisingly, amazing things happen when groups of inventive people congregate. Edison was able to accomplish so many great things, through trial and error and with the help of other inventors in his lab. While modern-day labs ...READ»
BYHeath Row Relevancy Score: 56 Mon Aug 21, 2006 at 11:43 AM
From the major dailies:
After 70 Years, French Leave Is Still Not open to All
Back-Seat Driving
Consultant Lets Clients Use "Gut" to Set Final Fee
Ebay Merchants Seek Management Change
A Cure for the Professional Identity ...READ»
BY Fast Company Staff Relevancy Score: 28 Mon Jan 28, 2008 at 6:05 PM
Jill Greenberg
Photographer Jill Greenberg created a stir when she made some toddlers cry--on purpose. She'd taken away their lollipops just long enough to get her shot. But there were no tears when she photographed Discovery's ...READ»
BYAnya Kamenetz Relevancy Score: 22 Wed Feb 18, 2009 at 10:58 AM
The Obama stimulus signed yesterday contains $11 billion for technological upgrades to the electric grid. Huge companies like IBM, Cisco, GE, and now Google all have initiatives and investments in the so-called "smart grid." But ...READ»
BY Cheryl Dahle Relevancy Score: 16 Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:09 AM
Steve Burnett doesn't pretend that he knows why some sites sell and others repel. The key to creating great sites, he says, is to let the people who visit them help you design them: "Users will show us what works."READ»
