AT&T Labs

AT&T Labs

Infobox_Company
company_name = AT&T Labs, Inc.
company_
company_type = Private (Subsidiary of AT&T)
foundation = 1988
location = Austin, TX, Florham Park, NJ, & Middletown, NJ, USA
industry = Research & Development
homepage = [http://www.att.com/labs/ att.com/labs]

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.

History

AT&T Labs, Inc. was originally founded in 1988 as Southwestern Bell Technology Resources, Inc. It had no connection to Bellcore, the R&D organization owned equally by all of the Baby Bells [ [http://sec.edgar-online.com/1996/03/12/00/0000092476-96-000001/Section2.asp SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE CO Annual Report (Regulation S-K, item 405) (10-K405) ITEM 1. BUSINESS ] ] .

In 1995, Southwestern Bell Corporation renamed itself SBC Communications, Inc., resulting in the subsequent name changes of companies such as SWB TRI to SBC Technology Resources, Inc.

In 2003, SBC TRI changed its name to SBC Laboratories, Inc. [ [http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800&cdvn=news&newsarticleid=20517 AT&T - News Room, June 16, 2003] ]

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.

Works

They developed Korn shell (a Unix shell programming language), Graphviz, a graph visualization system, [http://www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php Text to Speech] software, [http://www.galaxquery.org/distrib.html Galax] (an implementation of XQuery for XML), and other useful [http://www.research.att.com/~gsf/download/ tools and libraries] .

References

External links

* [http://www.att.com/labs AT&T Labs]
* [http://www.research.att.com/ AT&T Labs' Research division website]


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