- AT&T Labs
Infobox_Company
company_name = AT&T Labs, Inc.
company_
company_type = Private (Subsidiary ofAT&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 Americantelecommunications 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 toBellcore , the R&D organization owned equally by all of theBaby 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 andAT&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 inAT&T Laboratories along with its research facilities inNew 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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