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"Down and out in Murray Hill", by Irwin Goodwin, Nature, 9 August 2001.
"Bell Labs has been an icon of ingenuity ever since its launch in 1925 by AT&T." The author declares Bell Labs is the world's premier industrial research center, a claim backed by its research and development in transistors, lasers, optics, digital data transmission, satellite communications, the UNIX computer operating system, and the fact that the lab's work has been honored with six Nobel prizes. But the article cites the dire straights of Lucent Technologies, Bell's parent, as a threat to the health of Bell and the sustenance of its scientists, mathematicians, engineers and technicians. "Last year, the labs hired 20 newly graduated physicists and mathematicians, but so far this year only a handful of postdocs have been taken on.... Nevertheless, many staff remain loyally optimistic."
--- Annette Emerson
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