Momentum is building for quantum computing and some observers say that a usable, fault-tolerant quantum system could appear ...

This year, Bell Labs celebrates its hundredth birthday. In a centennial celebration held last week at the Murray Hill, New Jersey campus, the lab’s impressive technological history was ...

William Shockley and two teammates invented the transistor there in 1947 and won a Nobel Prize. Two decades later, in 1969, Bell Labs’ researchers invented the Unix operating system.