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Ad Lib, Inc.

In 1992, a conglomerate from Germany, Binnenalster GmbH, purchased the assets of Ad Lib from the Government of Quebec, who had acquired it to prevent Creative Labs from buying it.

Albert L. Hopkins

After leaving Draper Labs, Albert Hopkins, with his wife Lynne Zaccaria, opened a pottery and antiques shop in South Danbury, New Hampshire.

Berwick Academy

Built in 1894 by George Albert Clough in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, landscaped by Frederick Law Olmsted, and built complete with electricity and state-of-the-art science labs, it remains the main Academy building today.

BioSLAX

Their aim was to effectively create a "BioSLAX CLOUD" where students and staff may instantiate any number BioSLAX servers dynamically for research and education (conduct bioinformatics practical labs by having students connect to the servers via suitable X Window clients such as X-Win32, VNC, Exceed and NoMachine NX) or deployed in such a manner which when used in conjunction with the UD Grid mpagent may be used to form a cluster for processing large jobs.

Digital Video Interactive

DVI was was developed around 1984 by Section 17 of The David Sarnoff Research Center Labs (DSRC) then a division of RCA.

DS1

Digital Signal 1, a T-carrier signaling scheme devised by Bell Labs

Fleet Command

The United States Naval Academy had the game installed in computer labs and used it to introduce prospective students to the concepts of fleet level decision making during its Summer Seminar program.

G3school

The school is equipped with Smart Boards and online communication portals, a music lab, science and computer labs, a science park, a library and bookstore, and an audio-visual room.

Gerry Parsky

Chairman Parsky oversaw the Regents’ governance of the University, including oversight and negotiations on behalf of the U.S. nuclear labs at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore, student admissions, expansion of the U.C. Merced campus, as well as budget and fiscal issues, including pension plans for the faculty and staff.

H.I.V.E.

In a flashback seen during the Forever Evil storyline, the H.I.V.E. were responsible for an act that turned S.T.A.R. Labs scientist Dr. Caitlin Snow into Killer Frost.

Hearing Health Foundation

In the late 1980s, both Dr. Edwin Rubel (then at the University of Virginia and now at the University of Washington) and Dr. Douglas Cotanche (then at the University of Pennsylvania and now at the Harvard School of Public Policy) discovered that even after chickens hair cells had been deliberately destroyed in their labs, the cells grew back.

Hox gene

In 1983, the homeobox was discovered independently by researchers in two labs: Ernst Hafen, Michael Levine, and William McGinnis (in Walter Gehring's lab at the University of Basel, Switzerland) and Matthew P. Scott and Amy Weiner (in Thomas Kaufman's lab at Indiana University in Bloomington).

Interactive C

Newton Research Labs developed Interactive C as a compiling environment for robots using the Motorola 6811 processor.

International Futures Forum

Ian Page Former Research Manager / Futurist, HP Research Labs.

IWB

Intelligent Web Business Laboratory, one of twelve labs under the department of Information and Industrial Engineering in the Yonsei University

James R. Von Ehr II

Von Ehr is the former chief executive of Zyvex corporation, the world first molecular nanotechnology company, which he founded in 1997, and which later split into four branches (Zyvex Technologies, Zyvex Instruments (acquired by DCG Systems, Inc.), Zyvex Labs, and Zyvex Asia), and current CEO of Zyvex Labs and chairman of Zyvex Technologies.

James Westphal

He came to Caltech initially on a four-month leave of absence from Sinclair Research Labs in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but never left.

Joe Celko

Celko has a very wide range of industries and applications starting in 1965 with a National Science Fair prize job at the Pittman-Dunn Research labs at the Frankford Arsenal.

John Cabot University

Campus facilities include computer labs, Wi-Fi, spacious terraces & courtyards, and art studios.

John S. Mayo

Following this, Mayo joined Bell Labs, now Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, (1955) where he first worked on early computers as the Triadic and Leprechaun, the Telstar satellite, ocean sonar systems and various switching systems.

Looney Labs

Looney Labs also produces and sells Icehouse pieces, small, colorful plastic pyramids useful for playing a variety of games as well as inventing new ones.

Lukas Biewald

Biewald is CEO of CrowdFlower (formerly Dolores Labs) — an Internet company that breaks large digital projects into small tasks and distributes them to workers around the world — which he co-founded in December 2007 with Chris Van Pelt.

Mark Bolas

In 1988, Bolas co-founded Fakespace Inc. with Ian McDowall and Eric Lorimer to build instrumentation for research labs to explore virtual reality.

Marvin R. Sambur

Sambur worked at Bell Labs until 1977, when he joined ITT Defense Communications in Nutley, New Jersey, as senior vice president.

Mary Brown Bullock

The biggest structural achievement during Bullock's reign was the $36.5 million Science Center that includes a three-story length painting of Agnes Scott's actual DNA, along with state-of-the-art equipment in all the labs.

Maryland State Highway Administration

MSHA also maintains four research labs located throughout the State, as well as the Office of Traffic and Safety (OOTS) located in Hanover -- which houses several additional divisions.

Maser

When the laser was developed, Townes and Schawlow and their colleagues at Bell Labs pushed the use of the term optical maser, but this was largely abandoned in favor of laser, coined by their rival Gordon Gould.

Microsoft Live Labs

Live Labs was headed by Dr. Gary William Flake, who prior to joining Microsoft was a principal scientist at Yahoo! Research Lab and former head of research at the Web portal's Overture Services division.

Mount Stony Brook Observatory

The dome contains a Meade 14" Maksutov–Cassegrain telescope and SBIG (SBIG-STL1001e) imaging equipment. The telescope is used for teaching undergraduate and graduate astronomy labs by the department, as well as by the Astronomy club. The observatory's imaging capabilities have been used to monitor variable stars. On the first Friday of every month during the school year the department hosts "Astronomy Open Nights" during which a lecture is given, followed by observing if the weather permits.

Muhammed Zafar Iqbal

He then joined Bell Communications Research (Bellcore), a separate corporation from the Bell Labs (now Telcordia Technologies), as a research scientist.

Orange and Bronze Software Labs

Calen Martin Legaspi is the co-founder and CEO of Orange and Bronze Software Labs.

Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists

Returning students, some of whom are attending the program for the third or even fourth time, typically take advanced courses sponsored by the Clay Mathematics Institute participate in a Research Lab, although all courses and labs are open to all students.

Ray Young

W. Rae Young, Bell Labs engineer, co-inventor of the cell phone

RIT Observatory

The observatory is primarily used to teach undergraduate astronomy labs, although some research relating to cataclysmic variables and asteroid occultations also takes place.

Rolling meth lab

Rolling meth labs can be concealed on or in vehicles that are as large as 18 wheelers or as small as a motorcycle.

Saffron Technology

Paul Hofmann, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, former executive at SAP Labs, Palo Alto, CA.

Shell Development Emeryville

Shell Development's labs also contributed significant support to California-based land speed recordholder Craig Breedlove and the Spirit of America vehicles.

Short backfire antenna

The SBF antenna was invented by Dr. Hermann W. Ehrenspeck of Air Force Cambridge Research Labs based at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, MA and was used for among other purposes, to provide Tactical Satellite Communications for U.S. Army ground forces due to the SBF's portability and gain.

Sitekit

Sitekit Labs was launched on June 12, 2008 and the opening was performed by videolink from Boston, Massachusetts by Mike Grandinetti of MIT Sloan School of Management.

Squid Labs

In 2004, Colin Bulthaup, Dan Goldwater, Saul Griffith, and Eric Wilhelm moved from the East Coast to California to found the company known as Squid Labs.

The Adventures of Montu Miah

The Adventures of Montu Miah was created with the help of Poser and the software development company Smith Micro Software previously known as Curious labs.

The Bureau: XCOM Declassified

As the game begins, CIA special agent William Carter is tasked with delivering an important package to Faulke at the Bureau's research labs at Groom Range.

The Computer Museum, Boston

Possibly the first-ever digital image was acquired from Jet Propulsion Labs, consisting of hand-assembled colored strips of line-printer output from the Mariner 4 Mars probe (1965).

The Demon under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor’s Heroic Search for the World’s First Miracle Drug

The Demon Under the Microscope: From Battlefield Hospitals to Nazi Labs, One Doctor's Heroic Search for the World's First Miracle Drug is a 2006 nonfiction book about the discovery of Prontosil, the first commercially available antibacterial antibiotic and sulfanilamide, the first commercial antibiotic.

The Scientist

Labs using YouTube, Wikipedia, JoVE, and other tools to best collaborate, communicate, and research were nominated by readers around the world.

Vivimed Labs

In 1997, Hyderabad-based Vivimed Labs started manufacturing Triclosan, a product with anti-microbial properties and able to be incorporated in formulations.

Winslow Carlton

In the final decade of his life, Winslow Carlton co-founded and served as president of Selcore Labs, where a new a-cellular pertussis vaccine was developed and approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Zander Cannon

Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards (with Jim Ottaviani and Big Time Attic), G.T. Labs, 2005, ISBN 978-0-9660106-6-4)


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