Francois Dion<p>I have a large collection of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/electronic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electronic</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/vinyl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vinyl</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/records" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>records</span></a>. I had a radio show on FM on the subject for about a decade. So it is always exciting to find something I don't have, especially early stuff. Found this 10" boxed "Music from Mathematics" from 1960, bell labs. Much more rare than 1962 Decca 12". Never seen it before. Found in a local shop, of all places, hiding inside a vinyl carry case.<br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/belllabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>belllabs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/computerassisted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computerassisted</span></a></p>
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Albert Cardona<p>"THAT ABILITY TO TAKE THE LONG VIEW was a boon to Bell Labs researchers, who could follow their own instincts and explore what especially intrigued them, rather than what might bolster AT&T's bottom line during the next few years. "The only pressure at Bell Labs was to do work that was good enough to be published or patented," recalls Morris Tanenbaum, who developed the first silicon transistor in 1954 [see "The Lost History of the Transistor," IEEE Spectrum, May 2004]"</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/BellLabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BellLabs</span></a></p>
Albert Cardona<p>"WHEN THE AT&T MONOPOLY HELD SWAY over U.S. telecommunications, R&D managers at Bell Labs and Western Electric were assured steady funding that allowed them to look forward 10 or 20 years—the kind of long view that truly disruptive technologies need in order to germinate and thrive. That combination of stable funding and long-term thinking produced core contributions to a wide variety of fields, including wireless and optical communications, information and control theory, microelectronics, computer software, systems engineering, audio recording, and digital imaging. Accumulating more than 30 000 patents, Bell Labs also played host to a long string of scientific breakthroughs, garnering six Nobel Prizes in physics and many other awards.</p><p>The funding came in large part from what was essentially a built-in "R&D tax" on telephone service. Every time we picked up the phone to place a long-distance call half a century ago, a few pennies of every dollar—a dollar worth far more than it is today—went to Bell Labs and Western Electric, much of it for long-term R&D on telecommunications improvements.</p><p>In 1974, for example, Bell Labs spent over $500 million on nonmilitary R&D, or about 2 percent of AT&T's gross revenues. Western Electric spent even more on its internal engineering and development operations. Thus, more than 4 cents of every dollar received by AT&T that year went to R&D at Bell Labs and Western Electric."</p><p><a href="https://memorial.bellsystem.com/the%20end%20of%20ATT.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">memorial.bellsystem.com/the%20</span><span class="invisible">end%20of%20ATT.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/BellLabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BellLabs</span></a></p>
Mike Dank<p>Visited Holmdel, NJ today. The former Bell Labs building is beautiful. <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/belllabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>belllabs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/bellworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bellworks</span></a></p>
Dávid<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@itsfoss" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>itsfoss</span></a></span> Nice article!</p><p>Bell Labs just turned 100 year old this year! 🎉<br> <a href="https://www.nokia.com/about-us/newsroom/articles/nokia-bell-labs-celebrates-100-years-of-innovation-and-looks-ahead-to-another-century-of-discovery/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nokia.com/about-us/newsroom/ar</span><span class="invisible">ticles/nokia-bell-labs-celebrates-100-years-of-innovation-and-looks-ahead-to-another-century-of-discovery/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/nokia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nokia</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/belllabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>belllabs</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions? — <a href="https://www.freaktakes.com/p/how-did-places-like-bell-labs-know" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">freaktakes.com/p/how-did-place</span><span class="invisible">s-like-bell-labs-know</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BellLabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BellLabs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AskingQuestions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AskingQuestions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Innovation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Curiosity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Curiosity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechHistory</span></a></p>
1001 Other Albums<p>When I started this project, I had every intention of going through everyone else’s recommendations on <a href="https://1001otheralbums.com/the-list/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The List</a> as quickly as possible…until I realized just how huge a thing that is. I’ve now fallen into the pattern of not listening to the albums until its their turn for a spotlight, only making an exception if the Fediverse keeps putting one of them in front of my face, making me too curious to wait.</p><p>One such exception is this album, number 83 on The List. I decided to let <em>The Expanding Universe</em> jump the queue because one contributor in particular (and the person who submitted it to The List), avi_miller, not infrequently either kept mentioning it or including it in their 5×5 grid posts on Mastodon. And I’m very glad I did. This album does something to my brain, like scrubs it, or massages it, as if I can feel neurons firing all over, all in a good way. Philip Glass has a similar effect for me but more patterned and localized – this one is more free…expanding, I suppose. Anyway, I let Avi know I had taken a listen, and they whipped up the below thoughts for today’s spotlight. Enjoy!</p> <p>In 1973, Laurie Spiegel started working at Bell Laboratories, a United States research center dedicated to the exploration of ground-breaking technologies. There, she would be given free-reign to experiment with some state of the art computers, the machines that would allow her to create the music that makes up her 1980 LP, <em>The Expanding Universe</em>.</p><p>The most important piece of technology behind the music on this album was GROOVE (Generating Realtime Operations On Voltage-controlled Equipment) System. Put simply, GROOVE System was a digital-analogue hybrid computer music system developed by Max Mathews, along with Lawrence Rosller, F. Richard Moore, and other colleagues from the late 1960s into the year 1970 at Bell Labs. The machine consisted of a wide variety of input and output devices, notably including 2 single megabyte hard disks which, to paraphrase Spiegel herself, were each roughly the size of a washing machine, all connected to a 24 bit DDP-224 computer in the next room over, visible through a window. (The actual computer was in a separate room from the inputs and outputs for the sake of temperature control.) This computer was then connected to a hefty amount of analog synthesizer equipment in a room down the hall. Digital signals from the computer room were sent to the analog room to control the equipment in there and then back to the computer room to be heard with speakers in real time in the input & output room.</p><p>Part of what made GROOVE System so revolutionary for the time was that it was a music making tool with a computer that was programmable both in DAP 24 and FORTRAN IV. The ability to write programs and algorithms that interacted with music being played by a musician in real time, all which could be recorded to digital memory, offered a layer of freedom to experiment with compositions that wasn’t available to most musicians in the early 1970s. Because of this aspect, Spiegel could more easily play with various elements of her pieces like the ambient textures of the title track, or the 4 rhythms that separately fluctuate across the 4 simultaneously playing melodies on Patchwork, each melody flowing in & out of view within the mix at various points.</p><p>Spiegel composed many pieces during her time at Bell Labs. 4 of those pieces, which date from 1974 to 1976, were released on the original 1980 release of the album via Philo (with another 15 that date from 1974 to 1977 being added for the 2012 reissue by Unseen Worlds).</p><p>If you are interested, it is well worth reading the liner notes from the re-release, which go into more detail behind the making of the album and the technology used [in the blog linked below].</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2vNTqyI4Zw" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Youtube: Laurie Spiegel – <em>The Expanding Universe</em></a></li><li><a href="https://lauriespiegel.bandcamp.com/album/the-expanding-universe" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Bandcamp: Laurie Spiegel – <em>The Expanding Universe </em>(2012 reissue)</a></li><li><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/470489-Laurie-Spiegel-The-Expanding-Universe" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Discogs: Laurie Spiegel – <em>The Expanding Universe</em></a></li><li><a href="https://unseenworlds.com/blogs/linernotes/laurie-spiegel-the-expanding-universe-notes-by-laurie-spiegel" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Unseen Worlds Blog: “The Expanding Universe”, Notes by Laurie Spiegel</a> </li></ul><p><a href="https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/08/28/laurie-spiegel-the-expanding-universe-1980-us/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/08/28/laurie-spiegel-the-expanding-universe-1980-us/</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/1001otheralbums/" target="_blank">#1001OtherAlbums</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/1980s/" target="_blank">#1980s</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/ambient/" target="_blank">#ambient</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/bell-labs/" target="_blank">#BellLabs</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/electronic-music/" target="_blank">#electronicMusic</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/experimental/" target="_blank">#experimental</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://1001otheralbums.com/tag/laurie-spiegel/" target="_blank">#LaurieSpiegel</a></p>
Nick Byrd, Ph.D.<p>Great day at the <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/STEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>STEM</span></a> icon <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/BellLabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BellLabs</span></a> (now <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/BellWorks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BellWorks</span></a>) for the <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/NewJersey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewJersey</span></a> Undergrad. <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Research</span></a> Symposium!</p><p>Olivia Parlow presented our latest experiment on reducing people’s intentions to overuse <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/antibiotics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antibiotics</span></a> — fantastic work and encouraging results!</p><p>More students from <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/StevensTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StevensTech</span></a>, <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/Caldwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Caldwell</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/University" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>University</span></a>, <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/FairleighDicksinson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FairleighDicksinson</span></a>, and more presented interesting and actionable <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a>!</p><p>Thanks to NJcolleges.org for organizing!</p><p><a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/publicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/medicine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>medicine</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/existentialRisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>existentialRisk</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/bioethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bioethics</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/xPhi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>xPhi</span></a> <a href="https://nerdculture.de/tags/philSci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philSci</span></a></p>
Bill Seitz<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://federate.social/@mattblaze" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mattblaze</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@AbandonedAmerica" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>AbandonedAmerica</span></a></span> the Murray Hill <a href="https://toolsforthought.social/tags/BellLabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BellLabs</span></a> location is up for grabs now.</p>
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p>The successor to <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ResearchUnix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchUnix</span></a> was <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Plan9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plan9</span></a> from <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/BellLabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BellLabs</span></a><br>A better <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/UNIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UNIX</span></a> than UNIX isn't a UNIX at all. Plan 9 takes the idea of "everything is a file" and it makes it real. In Unix, it's really just an empty marketing slogan. Lots of things, such as trees of process IDs, aren't part of the file system. In some versions, they can be seen via bolted-on extras, such as the /proc in-memory pseudo file system – but you won't find a /proc in macOS, for instance. <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/21/successor_to_unix_plan_9/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2024/02/21/suc</span><span class="invisible">cessor_to_unix_plan_9/</span></a></p>
Bill Seitz<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gmusser" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gmusser</span></a></span> "A radio telescope that discovered evidence of the Big Bang in 1964, revolutionizing the study of the universe, will remain in its original place on Crawford Hill in Holmdel, N.J, town officials announced last week." <a href="https://toolsforthought.social/tags/BellLabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BellLabs</span></a></p>
Jesse Alexander, WB2IFS/3<p>BITD at <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/belllabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>belllabs</span></a> there was an <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/EquipmentLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EquipmentLibrary</span></a>. If u needed a large power supply for a test u'd check to see they had one in the <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/Library" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Library</span></a> b4 begging ur boss to buy one. What if we had a <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/HamRadioLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HamRadioLibrary</span></a>? What if you could borrow an <a href="https://mastodon.hams.social/tags/amateurradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>amateurradio</span></a> instead of buy it? Would that be practical?</p>
Tom Lyon ✅<p>Remembering Dennis Ritchie, born this day 1941. I had the great privilege of working with Dennis during my summer at Bell Labs. This is his "What am I doing in a suit?" photo. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UNIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UNIX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BellLabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BellLabs</span></a></p>
Linux Professional Institute<p>Following recent changes to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RHEL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RHEL</span></a>?</p><p>Dive into 50+ years of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unix</span></a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> copyright history and the role of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> as explained by Jon maddog Hall to hear his perspective on new decisions at Redhat.</p><p>Photo: © Santiago Ferreira Litowtschenko</p><p><a href="https://lpi.org/vwt6" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lpi.org/vwt6</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LPI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LPI</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RichardStallman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RichardStallman</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/slackware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slackware</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/BellLabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BellLabs</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Apache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apache</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Netscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Netscape</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Redhat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Redhat</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/RHEL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RHEL</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a></p>
Jyoti Mishra<p>Every day in the studio, I thank <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BellLabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BellLabs</span></a> for balanced audio cables. </p><p>:ablobmeltsoblove: </p><p>Now, if only *every* socket was a combi XLR/jack, that would save me a fuckton of hassle.</p>
JohnMashey<p>I'm pleased to announce Computer History Museum's oral history of John Chambers, whose Bell Labs S language evolved into the R language widely used in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>statistics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/computing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computing</span></a>, verey important in that field, good example of raising level of work.<br>Transcript<br><a href="https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102792762" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">computerhistory.org/collection</span><span class="invisible">s/catalog/102792762</span></a><br>Video<br><a href="https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102792763" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">computerhistory.org/collection</span><span class="invisible">s/catalog/102792763</span></a><br>I enjoyed doing the interview, my 10 years at <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BellLabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BellLabs</span></a> overlapped with John's long career there. Although we never met then, we certainly knew folks in common.</p>
Tom Lyon ✅<p>The summer of '77 is when I worked with the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UNIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UNIX</span></a> group at <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BellLabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BellLabs</span></a>. Ritchie and Kernighan were working on their famous C book. I present Draft Version 1: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerHistory</span></a></p>
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