When ChatGPT burst into the scene in late 2022, it dazzled the world with how Artificial Intelligence could generate human-like text, code and conversation. But it very quickly revealed its limitations and weaknesses, namely hallucinations, mathematical challenges, brittleness and decision-making…
For the past 30 years, Nokia Bell Labs optical researcher Sébastien Bigo has been a near-constant presence at the annual European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC). In fact, since 1995, he has missed only a single edition of Europe’s most…
We are living in an era in which cognitive robots are becoming commonplace in factories, warehouses and other challenging environments. They offer an autonomous solution that often is safer and more productive than manual labor. The technology behind this is…
Published in The Canadian Jewish News. One of the defining memories of my youth is the 1990 Gulf War, and the subsequent Iraqi missile attacks against Israel early the next year. I was 14, and I distinctly remember the drama…
Published in The Canadian Jewish News. The start of the inevitable Iranian retaliation to Israel’s stunning series of airstrikes caught me in the shower Friday night. Upon hearing the familiar sound of wailing air raid sirens outside, I quickly grabbed…
If you have ever taken a selfie on your smartphone or gotten an X-Ray from your doctor or dentist, you have George E. Smith to thank. Smith, together with his close Bell Labs colleague and friend Willard S. Boyle, invented…
It is already conventional wisdom that artificial intelligence is rapidly affecting our lives and upending the way we work. But it’s also clear that the impact of AI will vary from place to place, community to community. With the potential…
In the never-ending race to meet the insatiable global demand for communication, optical transmission researchers have an overriding objective: speed. Our global communications infrastructure is powered by high-capacity fiber optic cables and Nokia Bell Labs has been at the forefront…
When AT&T and Western Electric officially created Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1925, the world was on the cusp of a technological revolution. There were no televisions, transistors or transoceanic telephone cables. There were no communications satellites, cellular networks or high-speed…
One of the more widespread concerns of the looming era of artificial intelligence is how it will impact the traditional job market. Fears have been rampant on how it could make many blue-collar jobs obsolete, with robots replacing those in…
Published in The Canadian Jewish News. With all the trauma and turmoil that has engulfed this country after more than a year of war, it seems almost trivial to describe the plight of daily life in central Israel under the…
With the changing autumn weather of New York City as a backdrop, some of the most creative minds in the communications industry gathered to mark an equally dramatic transition in their field. As the wind picked up and the falling…
It’s been less than a decade since the Fourth Industrial Revolution came into our lives. This revolutionary era – also known as Industry 4.0 – predicted an increasingly interconnected and automated future marked by dramatic advances in robotics, artificial intelligence,…
In the realm of optical networks, speed has long been the driving force. Our global communications infrastructure, powered by high-capacity fiber optic cables, has thrived on the principle that faster is better. Nokia Bell Labs has been at the forefront…
We are entering a new era of quantum technologies that will unlock new capabilities in computing, networking and sensing. But there is one quantum technology that will have an immediate and direct impact on all of humankind: quantum security. Quantum…