How It Felt to Work at Bell Labs in the 60s

Just 45 mile outside New York City in Murray Hill , New Jersey sits Bell Labs : the birth space of laser , transistors , cellphones and many other mod technology . In this video , Professor Brian Kernighan remembers what it was like to turn there .

Kernighan joined the labs in the tardy 60 , at a prison term when computer science did n’t quite exist — at that point , it was just electrical engineering . But , as he recalls , Bell Labs was pioneering the technique that would make and transform the industry .

If you enjoyed keep an eye on that , there ’s also an former video from the 80s , released by AT&T , whichshows some behind - the - scenes glance of Bell Labs .