The Boring Part of Bell Labs

It took me a long time to realize that Bell Labs was cool. You see, my dad worked at Bell Labs, and he has not done a single cool thing in his life except create me and bring a telescope to my third grade class. Nothing he was involved with could ever be cool, especially after the standard set by his grandfather who is allegedly on a patent for the television. It turns out I was partially right. The Bell Labs everyone talks about is the research division at Murray Hill. They’re the ones that inv...