Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent, has announced an international competition, open to innovators with the ability and vision to revolutionise the way we live, work, communicate, and collaborate. This is an opportunity for researchers looking to positively impact humanity and the connection of the physical and digital worlds.
Bell Labs is offering up to $100,000 (£60,000) research support, plus potential employment, for the top ten researchers who outline their ideas for inventing the future. Bell Labs has 12 Nobel Prize laureates on its roll of researchers currently.
The Bell Labs Prize has been launched to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of cosmic microware background radiation, one of the strongest pieces of evidence supporting the “Big Bang” theory of the origin of the universe. This discovery in 1964 by Bell Labs scientists Arno Penzias and Robert A. Wilson earned the researchers a Nobel Prize in Physics and provided the basis for future astronomical discoveries.
“I am excited to see the ideas that come to light through this process, and to introduce talented young scientists and engineers into the Bell Labs community,” said Dr Marcus Weldon, president of Bell Labs and CTO of Alcatel-Lucent.
