Bell Laboratories (also known as Bell Labs and formerly known as AT&T Bell

Laboratories and Bell Telephone Laboratories) is the research and development subsidiary
of Alcatel-Lucent. Bell Laboratories operates its headquarters in Murray Hill, New Jersey, United
States, and has research and development facilities throughout the world.
The historic laboratory originated in the late 19th century as the Volta Laboratory and
Bureau created by Alexander Graham Bell. Bell Labs was also at one time a division of the
American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T Corporation), half-owned through its Western
Electric manufacturing subsidiary.
Researchers working at Bell Labs are credited with the development of radio astronomy,
the transistor, the laser, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory,
the UNIX operating system, the C programming language, S programming language and the C+
+ programming language. Eight Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work completed at Bell
Laboratories.
On May 20, 2014, Bell Labs announced the Bell Labs Prize, a competition for innovators to offer
proposals in information and communications technologies, with cash awards of up to $100,000
for the grand prize