AT&T Labs

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AT&T Labs, Inc. is the research & development arm of American telecommunications giant, AT&T. It also comprises elements of the former AT&T Laboratories, SBC Laboratories and BellSouth Laboratories.

[edit] What is AT&T Labs

AT&T Labs is made up of approximately 1,100 of the world's best scientists and engineers including experts in advanced data networking, software engineering, systems integration & speech technology. The research team consists of experts in science and technologies of importance to AT&T. The development team creates new products and services through integration of off-the-shelf products -- including the tools and systems to manage secure and reliable networks for customers and for AT&T. They develop and deploy new technologies to automate and streamline the way AT&T interacts with customers. AT&T Labs' scientists have won numerous distinguished awards from professional associations and leading academic institutions. 1

[edit] History

AT&T Laboratories, was originally founded in 1925 as Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.and was renamed AT&T Laboratories, Inc. in 1996 following the spin-off of most of Bell Labs to Lucent Technologies.

The founders of the Bell System quickly rose to meet this competitive threat and to unify communications within the United States. They recognized the need to work toward a concept of universal service that would ultimately allow a caller to pick up a telephone and reach another person anywhere in the world, efficiently and cost-effectively. They began to work toward this concept by making strategic acquisitions and supporting global standards. The founders also realized that to overcome the technological obstacles that were certain to arise in this new industry, they needed a commitment to a long-term research and development effort that would be second to none in the industry. To achieve this, the Bell System established Bell Labs in 1925.

Prior to its renaming to AT&T Labs, it focused on four core areas: Broadband Internet, Wireless Systems, Network Services, and Network IT.

In 2005, SBC Communications and AT&T Corp. merged to form AT&T Inc. AT&T Labs, Inc. became the new name of SBC Laboratories, Inc. upon the completion of the transaction. With the merger brought in AT&T Laboratories along with its research facilities in New Jersey.

In 2006, BellSouth Laboratories became a part of AT&T Labs.

[edit] Works

They developed KornShell (a Unix shell programming language), Graphviz, a graph visualization system, Text to Speech software, Galax (an implementation of XQuery for XML), and other useful tools and libraries.

[edit] References

• 1 http://www.corp.att.com/attlabs/about/
• 2 http://www.corp.att.com/attlabs/about/backgrounder.html
• 3 https://www.sos.mo.gov/BusinessEntity/soskb/Corp.asp?503183

[edit] External links

• AT&T Labs
• AT&T Labs Research - Website

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