If you had asked in the late eighties and early nineties the question "Which organization leads in research and innovation in computer science (and for that matter most of the science disciplines)?" anyone would reply back "Bell Labs". With the merger of Alcatel and Lucent last year and Alcatel-Lucent subsequently announcing that it would stop funding researches in fundamental science at Bell Labs, it is no longer the hub of innovation in computer science. The Plan-9 (Inferno) distributed OS project hasnt got the thrust in market it ought to have. So where are all the great minds that worked in Operating Systems and Distributed Systems at Bell Labs now?
Google for Robert Pike and Ken Thompson and you will know where they are :-) The list of top notch computer scientists at Google doest just stop here. Vinton Cerf is also at Google. Is Google redefining research in distributed communications and continues what was left by Bell Labs?
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