Check out the demos and read about the technology beneath them on the site or start with the news release and a brief history of Bell Labs work with talking machines. Using Bell Labs-developed spatial indexing algorithms, developed by the Database Systems Research Department, Maps On Us provides users with a host of flexible data search options, including the ability to collaboratively plan a route with another user. A comprehensive yellow pages database contains more than 11 million entries nationwide. On Us is Navigation Made Simple. The Metaphorium gallery, produced by the Multimedia Communication Research Department at Bell Labs, explores next-generation communication environments.
Visitors can write messages to the bottle and, later, read messages from other site visitors.
Metaphorium gives the department a compelling experimental location for end-user research and complements their current and previous collaborative work, which includes Rapport, one of the first multimedia communications systems, and elements of the Multimedia Call Exchange Server and elemedia software components. Get samples from the venture's web site and read about the contracts they have signed with Netscape and with Isochrone, Soundprint, and Camelot. Big Throughput Camera Produces Stunning Images of Distant Galaxies Bell Labs astronomer Tony Tyson and colleague Gary Bernstein of the University of Michigan presented a post-deadline paper on June 11 at the American Astronomical Society conference in Madison, Wisconsin, on the Big Throughput Camera just tested at the Cerro Tololo InterAmerican Observatory in the Chilean Andes. Now Bell Labs researchers have developed the first room-temperature QC lasers. The 1450D Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexer is used at the receiving end of a fiber-optic transmission link to sort and route lightwave signals carried on eight information channels, or wavelengths, within a single filament of optical fiber.