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Re:Project Loon by nhebb on Saturday June 15, 2013 @12:50AM (#5884097)
AT&T spun off Bell Labs in the 90's as part of Lucent. Lucent was acquired by Alcatel. Alcatel shut down Bell labs in 2008.
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Re:Project Loon by aray on Saturday June 15, 2013 @01:52AM (#5884249)
And of the computer science and other researchers that were at Bell Labs at the time, many now work at Google.
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Re:Project Loon by wetmore on Saturday June 15, 2013 @03:23AM (#5884406)
And then they started patent trolling with the trove of patents they acquired.
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Re:Project Loon by tomphoolery on Saturday June 15, 2013 @02:14PM (#5885816)
Doesn't say that on Wikipedia, did I miss something? Looks to me like they're just shifting Bell Labs' focus from basic scientific research and focusing all research into computer science aspects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs#2000s
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Re:Project Loon by parasubvert on Sunday June 16, 2013 @07:17PM (#5890481)
AT&T also started and continued "AT&T labs" in 1996, which still exists, and was populated by many ex-Bell Labs folks.
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