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   Bell Labs

   The first transistor, a point-contact germanium device, was invented at Bell Laboratories in 1947. ... It was the first known case of fraud at Bell Labs.
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   Plan 9 from Bell Labs

   It was developed as the research successor to Unix by the Computing Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs between the mid-1980s and 2002. ... UTF-8 was invented by Ken Thompson to be used as the native encoding in Plan 9 and the whole system was converted to general use in 1992.
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   John Bardeen

   John Bardeen, Ph.D. (May 23, 1908 – January 30, 1991) was an American physicist and electrical engineer, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice: first in 1956 with William Shockley and Walter Brattain for the invention of the transistor; and again in 1972 with Leon Neil Cooper and John Robert Schrieffer for a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory. ... A stylized replica of the first transistor invented at Bell Labs on December 23, 1947.
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   Permalloy

   Permalloy is the term for a nickel iron magnetic alloy. ... The latter was invented at Bell Labs in 1940.
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   Mark Shepherd (businessman)

   Mark Shepherd (January 18, 1923 – February 4, 2009) was the chairman and chief executive officer of Texas Instruments. ... Texas Instruments licensed the transistor technology that had been invented at Bell Labs in 1947 and pursued applications for its use.
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   Scrambler

   In telecommunications, a scrambler is a device that transposes or inverts signals or otherwise encodes a message at the transmitter to make the message unintelligible at a receiver not equipped with an appropriately set descrambling device. ... The first voice scramblers were invented at Bell Labs in the period just before World War II.
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   Active pixel sensor

   An active-pixel sensor (APS), also commonly written active pixel sensor, is an image sensor consisting of an integrated circuit containing an array of pixel sensors, each pixel containing a photodetector and an active amplifier. ... The CCD was invented in 1970 at Bell Labs.
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   Version 10 Unix

   Tenth Edition Unix, also known as Version 10 Unix or V10, was the last version of the Research Unix operating system developed and used internally at Bell Labs. "Released" in 1989, it was the successor of V9.
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   W. Rae Young

   William Rae Young, Jr. (October 30, 1915 – March 7, 2008) was one of the Bell Labs engineers that invented the cell phone. ... After graduation, Young began working at Bell Labs in what became his lifetime employment.
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    BEFLIX

    BEFLIX is the name of the first specialised computer animation language, invented by Ken Knowlton at Bell Labs in 1963. The name derives from a combination of Bell Flicks.

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