AT&T Opens R&D Lab in Cambridge, England
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`February 10, 1999, Wednesday
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`Copyright 1999 Business Wire, Inc.
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`Dateline: BASKING RIDGE, N.J.
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`Feb. 10, 1999--A building in England's Silicon Fen, set among 12th century architecture but housing a 21st century
`laboratory, is home to AT&T's first major research and development center outside the U.S.
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` The facility, the former Olivetti & Oracle Research Lab, was acquired earlier this month and renamed AT&T
`Laboratories - Cambridge. It is co-located with one of the world's pre-eminent research universities and houses 50
`fulltime researchers, working on networking, multimedia and mobile communications systems.
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` Their goal and forte are consistent with the newly streamlined, customer-focused AT&T Labs: to make technology
`truly easy to use, then quickly move ideas from the lab and into the marketplace.
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` "There was a time when we believed that all good ideas originated within our New Jersey office complex," said
`David Nagel, AT&T's chief technology officer and president of AT&T Labs. "Today, AT&T Labs is branching out,
`first 2,600 miles to the west to Silicon Valley, with facilities focused on IP development, then to a new Internet
`research lab at the University of California at Berkeley, and now 3,600 miles northeast to the English countryside."
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`AT&T has identified the delivery of broadband communications - anytime, anywhere, any distance - as the goal all
`its organizations, including AT&T Labs, are focusing on to quickly deliver the most useful services employing the
`most advanced technologies.
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` "What better way to bring new products and solutions to market than by putting networking to work in our labs,
`linking together the people with the ideas and the expertise to make things happen, wherever they happen to be,"
`Nagel said.
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` AT&T Laboratories - Cambridge, founded in 1986, has a strong track record in bringing new technology to market.
`Its founder, Andy Hopper, will continue to head the facility as Managing Director, and the researchers will continue
`their work, including a commitment to help set up the new Laboratory of Communications Engineering (LCE) at
`Cambridge University's Engineering Department, providing on-going support and funding.
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` "Our core activities center around networking and communications, multimedia, mobility, and distributed systems,"
`Hopper said. "Typically, we develop prototype hardware, systems and applications for each research topic we
`explore, and focus on building large scale working systems, which we deploy widely both within our laboratory and
`within the University."
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` The facility has launched several successful businesses over its 12-year history, including TeleMedia Systems Ltd.,
`producing multimedia ATM peripherals commercially; Virata Ltd., developing ATM commercially and delivering it to
`desktops; and Adaptive Broadband Ltd., developing broadband wireless solutions
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`the worldwide
`communications market.
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` Among the projects under way today:
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` -- VNC (Virtual Network Computing), a remote display system which allows users to view their computing 'desktop'
`environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet. This means you can
`leave your desk, go to another machine, whether next door or several hundred miles away, reconnect to your
`desktop from there and finish the sentence you were typing. Even the cursor will be in the same place;
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` -- Active Bat - an Ultrasonic Location System that would make possible context-aware computer systems that
`automatically configure themselves based on what's happening in the environment around them. An example might
`be a videophone system with many cameras placed around a room, which would continuously select a camera view
`in which the user could be seen, allowing that user to wander freely during the videophone conversation;
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` -- DART, bringing together speech recognition, image analysis, video parsing, information retrieval and human-
`computer interaction to enable users to index, annotate, and browse through personal collections of pictures, audio
`recordings, and home movies, such as you might obtain from digital still cameras, photo-CDs, and digital video
`cameras; and
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` -- piconet, an experiment into low powered, low range, ubiquitous wireless networking.
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` Some of the products the lab has already brought to market would be familiar to Trekkies - things like the Active
`Badge, a small device that, when worn, transmits a unique infrared signal every ten seconds. Each office within a
`building is equipped with one or more networked sensors, which detect these transmissions. The location of the
`badge (and, therefore, its wearer) can be easily determined based on the information transmitted by these sensors,
`enabling users to do such things as receive phone calls, made to their home, office, or cellphones, from whatever
`phone they're near.
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` Over 1500 badges and 2000 sensors are already in use in several European universities including the University of
`Kent, Imperial College (London), Lancaster University, the University of Twente (the Netherlands) and, of course,
`Cambridge.
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` And before starting the labs in Cambridge, Hopper and colleagues founded Acorn, a computer company that
`created the ARM (Advanced RISC Machine) (chip, used in Apple's Newton products.
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`For more information about AT&T Laboratories - Cambridge, visit the website at http://www.uk.research.att.com.
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`CONTACT: AT&T
` Sue Fleming, 908/221-8824 (office)
` 908/230-3042 (mobile)
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` James Gunn, +44 171 746-4760 (office)
` +44 171 987-6475 (alternate)
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` jgunn@london.att.com
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