Essays Tagged: "Bell Labs"

Windows NT vs Unix as an operating system

Evolution & Development HistoryIn the late 1960s a combined project between researchers at MIT, Bell Labs and General Electric led to the design of a third generation of computer operating system ... like science fiction to them. However MULTICS proved more difficult than imagined to implement and Bell Labs withdrew from the project in 1969 as did General Electric, dropping out of the computer bu ...

(19 pages) 706 5 4.2 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Where did UNIX come from and why are there different versions of UNIX?

operating system were begun in the 1960's in a development projectcalled MULTICS. While working for Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1969 and 1970, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchiebegan to develop their ... (In other words, this operating system that they were developing did not run on any machine made by Bell!)In 1973, Dennis Ritchie rewrote the UNIX operating system in C (a language he had developed.) ...

(1 pages) 125 0 4.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Outsourcing IT functions. This paper gives both the pros and cons of Outsourcing IT functions

so fast no one company can stay ahead of the entire world, observes the professor. In the old days Bell Labs were able to keep the Bell system one step ahead. That is not possible today because event ...

(4 pages) 854 1 3.3 Jun/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Silicon

vacuum tubes,weighed 50 tins, and required 140 kilowatts of power.By the 1930's, researchers at the Bell Telephone Laboratories werelooking for a replacement for the vacuum tube. They began studying t ... but whose electrical properties lie between theseextremes. By 1947 the transistor was invented. The Bell Labs researchteam sought a way of directly altering the electrical properties ofsemiconductor m ...

(5 pages) 91 0 4.0 Feb/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

This essay is about the revolution of cell phones both technologically and culturaly.

ral item in our everyday lives.Since the idea of the cell phone was first invented in the 1940's by Bell Labs, ithas come a long way and evolved into many different systems. The idea of the cell phone ... y to Mobil car phones," they can make them have a much higher traffic capacity and quality (qtd. in Bellis). They however noticed that the technology to do so did not exist and that more advancements ...

(8 pages) 342 0 5.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Unix.

ti-user and multitasking operating system that was developed in the early 1970's by scientists from Bell Laboratories. Because of federal regulations Bell Laboratories was prohibited from promoting UN ...

(1 pages) 96 1 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

C++

here did C++ come from?C++ was designed and implemented by Bjarne Stroustrup who works for AT&T Bell Labs as head of the Large-Scale Program Research department where he is heavily involved with t ... ssenger) to:(if fee paid then control else fee controller)end::(Parsons)CC, a language developed by Bell Labs to write operating systems (Stroustrup), was not designed to be object-oriented (McHale). ...

(12 pages) 94 0 4.4 Jun/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Analysis Of The C++ Programming Language

ept of inheritance and encapsulation to provide robustness and data hiding.In 1980, a researcher at Bell Labs, Bjarne Stroustrup, was seeking to extend the programming language C with object oriented ... strup, Bjarne (1991), The C++ Programming Language, Second Edition.Murray Hill New Jersey: AT&T Bell Laboratories.Stroustrup, Bjarne (November 6, 2002), C++ Applications. Retrieved December 16, 20 ...

(6 pages) 132 2 4.5 Nov/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Programming Languages

Operating System

tion two, the researcher will focus on Microsoft Window 2000.Section AUNIX SYSTEMBackgroundIn 1970, Bell Labs created UNIX system and operational on a PDP-7. Work on UNIX at Bell Labs, and later elsew ... me [RITC74]. In 1976, Version 6 introduced and it was the first widely distribution version outside Bell Labs. Then the follow on Version 7 was released in 1978, it consider as most modern UNIX system ...

(58 pages) 391 0 5.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

High-level design of an Enterprise wide Network

link with a total signaling speed of 1.544 Mbps. Since the development of T1 in 1957 by AT&T's Bell Labs, it has become the building block of dedicated voice and data service in North America. T1 ...

(6 pages) 117 0 0.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

T1 Dedicated Voice

link with a total signaling speed of 1.544 Mbps. Since the development of T1 in 1957 by AT&T's Bell Labs, it has become the building block of dedicated voice and data service in North America. T1 ...

(4 pages) 21 0 0.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Lucent in a Globalizing world

any years ago, AT&T, the American national telephony corporation, begun cooperation with famous Bell Laboratories, the inheritor of telephone inventor – Graham Bell. It’s very important, ... t. Attributes base on newest telecommunication equipment. Marketing communication relates to famous Bell Laboratories, its inventions, advanced technologies and new features of products. This referenc ...

(6 pages) 40 0 0.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Self-Assembling Circuits Using DNA, The Next Computer Breakthrough

neffective due to their unreliability and tendency to overheat. The transistor, invented in 1947 at Bell Telephone Laboratories, rapidly succeeded the vacuum tubes. Transistors make up an integrated c ... rogress of SolutionDNA self-assembly has spurred many new creations and discoveries.Scientists from Bell Labs created tweezers made of DNA. In this process, a single-strand hinge attaches to double-st ...

(5 pages) 14 0 3.7 Apr/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Engineering > Chemical Engineering

Lucent Technologies

ques, and the information systems that allow Lucent to conduct its daily activities.History Bell Labs was stared in 1925 as the research and development arm of AT&T and Western Electric. B ... y that shares the same standard industry code 4813. Some of Lucent main competitors include, NASDAQ bell weathers, such as, Cisco Systems, Ciena Corporation, and Nortel Networks. Lucent's mission stat ...

(11 pages) 41 0 5.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Semiconductors

technological devices as computer chips and integrated circuits. By the 1930's, researchers at the Bell Telephone Laboratories were looking for a replacement for the vacuum tube. They began studying ... ut whose electrical properties lie between these extremes. By 1947 the transistor was invented. The Bell Labs research team sought a way of directly altering the electrical properties of semiconductor ...

(8 pages) 25 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Buyer Behaviour - Mobile Phone The Latest Technology

owever they also present certain challengers.History of mobile phonesMobile phone was introduced by bell Labs engineers at AT & T in 1947. There are several generations in mobile phone history.In ...

(5 pages) 45 0 3.0 Apr/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Case Study on Lucent Technologies

cations Systems, AT&T Microelectronics and AT&T Consumer Products, which later combine with Bell Labs to become Lucent Technologies.In September 1995, US-based telecom giant AT&T announced ... & development, to innovate the product as pre market requirements, and it had a strong back of Bell Labs which had more than 28000 patents in technologies related to voice and & data transmis ...

(12 pages) 25 0 0.0 Sep/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Management Planning & Decision Making