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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Research and development |
| Predecessor | AT&T Laboratories (1925-2005) |
| Founded | 1996; 29 years ago (1996)[a] |
| Headquarters | Atlanta, Georgia Austin, Texas Middletown, New Jersey Redmond, Washington San Ramon, California Warrenville, Illinois |
| Parent | AT&T Communications |
| ASN | 25993 |
| Website | www |
AT&T Labs, Inc. (formerlyAT&T Laboratories, Inc.) is theresearch & development division ofAT&T, the telecommunications company. It employs some 1,800 people in various locations, including:Bedminster, New Jersey;Middletown, New Jersey;Manhattan, New York;Warrenville, Illinois;Austin, Texas;Dallas, Texas;Atlanta, Georgia;San Francisco, California;San Ramon, California; andRedmond, Washington. The main research division, made up of around 450 people, is based across the Bedminster, Middletown, San Francisco, and Manhattan locations.
AT&T Labs traces its history fromAT&T Bell Labs. Much research is in areas traditionally associated with networks and systems, ranging from the physics of optical transmission to foundational topics in computing and communications. Other research areas address the technical challenges of large operational networks and the resulting large data sets.
Researchers at AT&T Labs wroteHancock, a data mining language that sorted through 100 million records nightly from the parent company's long-distance phone network.[1] TheOnline Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (now operated by the OEIS foundation) is the creation of former AT&T ResearcherNeil Sloane.[2][3]
Researchers at AT&T Labs have successfully transmitted 100 Gigabits per second over a single optical link. In 2009, AT&T researchers led the winning team in theNetflix Prize competition for helping to improve Netflix's movie recommendation algorithm.[4]
AT&T Laboratories, Inc., known informally as AT&T Labs, was founded in 1996, as a result of the split of AT&T Bell Laboratories into separate R&D organizations supportingAT&T Corporation andLucent Technologies. Lucent retained the nameBell Labs and AT&T adopted the nameAT&T Laboratories for its R&D organization.
AT&T Labs also traces its origin to Southwestern Bell Technology Resources, Inc. (SWB TRI) which was founded in 1988 as the R&D arm of Southwestern Bell Corporation. It had no connection toBellcore, the R&D organization owned equally by all of theBaby Bells.[5]
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. (SBC TRI).
In 2003, SBC TRI changed its name to SBC Laboratories, Inc..[6] SBC Laboratories focused on four core areas: Broadband Internet, Wireless Systems, Network Services, and Network IT.
In 2005,SBC Communications and AT&T Corporation merged to formAT&T. AT&T Labs, Inc. became the new name of the combined SBC Laboratories, Inc. and AT&T Laboratories along with its research facilities inNew Jersey.
In 2006,BellSouth Telecommunications Science and Technology (S&T) was also merged with AT&T Labs. BellSouth Science and Technology had offices inBirmingham, Alabama andAtlanta, Georgia.
