Bell Labs

“Doing that directly with charged couple devices was one of the main, sort of, use cases of what drove CCD development, you know, at Bell Labs you know, sort of, 40 years ago.”

“If you look at, ah, you know, a lot of, ah, innovation Up till, well, to me, re up until recently came from, like, Bell Labs and IBM and Microsoft Research, and that's where a lot of the new, I would say the new commercial ideas came from folks leaving those a…”

“Realizes that there are a bunch of academic mathematicians who don't want to stay in academia and you don't really know what to do with them. And he sort of says, well, if you invite them in and attach them to engineers, attach them to physicists, They can hel…”

“He joins the mathematical research group, and they basically go around cherry-picking the problems that they would like to solve, and they don't have to do anything they don't want to do.”

“They were basically like, they were rounding errors on everything. Like, there weren't 10, there weren't 20, there weren't a hundred, there were three or four. And there were two preconditions for them. One is, they all were offshoots of monopolies... And then…”

“Bell Labs and AT&T were not the major beneficiaries of the discovery of the transistor. Xerox was not the major beneficiary of the discoverer of modern personal computing, right?”

“It was developed at Bell Labs, although it was based on a lot of federal research, but it was developed at Bell Labs while they were looking for better switches. By every definition, it was an incremental innovation, not a quote disruptive.”