9780929306278 - Bell Labs: Life in the Crown Jewel von Gehani, Narain (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. First edition, first printing (stated and with number line with "1"). SIGNED BY GEHANI ON THE TITLE PAGE WITHOUT INSCRIPTION OR PERSONALIZATION . Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 258 pp. with index. Scarce and highly sought after first hand account of America's greatest 20th century research laboratory, Bell Labs. This subsidiary was the crown jewel of AT&T and was at the forefront of information technology for decades; the eventualy court-ordered breakup of AT&T spun Bell Labs off into Lucent Technologies. That company was the darling of institutional and individual investors for a decade before it lost its edge and eventually went bankrupt. Author Narhain Gehani worked at Bell Labs for 23 years, though the period when AT&T went from a monopoly to a competitive company and when it split up and Bell Labs became lucent Technologies.