The formerly abandoned Bell Labs building in Holmdel, NJ. At one point slated for demolition, the historic site has since been turned into Bell Works, a multi-use complex that was the filming location for the series Severance.
The #question is - how do we create such centers of innovation?
I'm still putting it together but I suspect there are at least four:
1 Time- Insane and copious amounts of it
2 Community- Multiple individuals who interact syngeristically
3 Space- A shared space for innovation to occur
4 Equipment- Raw materials
The professional culture of mid-twentieth century communications engineering. According to John Pierce, Richard Hamming (of Hamming window fame) used to have a "great collection of dirty limericks," which he eventually destroyed. Pierce himself made a collage with images of breasts from Playboy taking the place of teeth in a smiling mouth (from Wood's 1991 CMJ interview w Pierce) #BellLabs#SoundSynthesis#DSP
Remembering Dennis Ritchie, born this day 1941. I had the great privilege of working with Dennis during my summer at Bell Labs. This is his "What am I doing in a suit?" photo. #UNIX#BellLabs
Dive into 50+ years of #Unix and #Linux copyright history and the role of #IBM as explained by Jon maddog Hall to hear his perspective on new decisions at Redhat.
I am watching a 2001 oral history interview with Manfred Schroeder and he is wearing an American flag pin on his lapel #SpeechSynthesis, #BellLabs, #SchroederReverb
Twelve years I started with Perl and I still can't remember EVERY TIME which one between ^ and $ should be used to match begin and end of regex pattern 🤔
Any mnemonic or memory aid? I can use a cheat sheet, but come on…
@smonff@Perl Y’all know I’m the first to crow about unique #Perl features, but #RegularExpressions’ syntax of ^ for the start of a line or string and $ for the end dates back at least to #Unix co-author Ken Thompson’s rewrite of the qed text editor for the #CTSS operating system on the IBM 7090 #mainframe at #BellLabs around 1970. (Perl creator Larry Wall was a teenager at the time.)