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

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 ...

Mario Romero worked at one of the busiest, most high-profile research laboratories in the world for 30 years. But, if you ask him, it never felt much like a job. “Let me tell you, I never felt I was ...

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 ...

The story of Bell Labs can’t be told without the pioneering Black inventors who worked at the legendary research company and charted a new path for diversity in science. The innovations of Bell Labs’ ...

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 ...