Nokia Bell Labs Is Moving to Helix in New Brunswick
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just like most people would understand that if you said "london international airport, airport code CXYU" you probably don't mean heathrow.
Also, I only included the IATA code to show that the code matches the name and isn’t random/unrelated (like CYXU).
Take some equity in the results to fund it, do some skunkworks projects, keep it out of the press and politics and away from bureaucracy. Sounds ideal.
It doesn't help putting New on the front to differentiate either. Its not as though we do that here in the UK either (much): Newton Abbot, Newcastle, New Forest, New Market. I drive through a Newtown on the A303 in the Blackdown hills. Oh, perhaps we do.
Here in the UK, I believe Whitchurch is the most often seen name for a collection of habitation structures (best I can do at the moment). We very rarely have white churches - so I have no idea what that is all about. Perhaps the Whit- is actually wit: "wise/clever" cf: witten and whist.
I should drop this in, given the name: I live very close to Brunswick street in Yeovil, UK (http://www.yeovilhistory.info/brunswick-street.htm)
The first Brunswick was probably in Germany. -wick and similar are a common place suffix in English, German and Dutch (ie the Germanic languages) for a farm or market place. Ipswitch, for example, was once known as gipeswic. Norwich is a northern wick (cf Norvik)
Probably best to read the entire article.
There are many places called Brunswick[1]. Brunswick is indeed from Germany, in honour of George III established in 1784[2]. Yes, your town of forked river/Gifle has a street name origin for the same reason, but it wasn't complete until at least 60 years later, and was originally named New France Street[3].
Bit of a miss on Whitchurch, ringing in with only 14[4] uses in the world, while Newtown[5] can be found 80 in places, excluding variants like Sturminster just down the road from you[6].
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Brunswick [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick [2]: https://natural-resources.canada.ca/earth-sciences/geography... [3]: http://www.yeovilhistory.info/brunswick-street.htm [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitchurch [5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newtown [6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturminster_Newton
I'm confused by the content in parentheses. are those examples of equivalence?
Since everywhere else in the world, state = country, and countries have provinces. including European countries.
Unless I misread, in which case nvm.
Mr Big Bang ... Whitchurch has rather a lot of spellings. Also, relying on WP for all your references rarely works well.
My reference to Whitchurch was UK exclusive in context but there are quite a few in AUS, NZ, CA, US, SA and others.
I'm not sure why you conflate Sturmister Newton with a bog standard Newton. You'll be calling Newton Abbot a Newton next (I went to school there for a while). We have Newtons and Newhams and that pouring out all over the place here but they are largely unremarkable in this discussion because it is effectively a suffix or prefix associated with the real moniker. Sturminster -, - Abbot etc.
On the other hand a White Church generally is just that - a white church. However, some if not most are associated with wit as in wise and not the colour white. Also Church might be Kirk (Scotland) or Chapel (Welsh) and a lot of other spellings too.
I appreciate your research on WP but I think reality is a bit more complicated.
A "..., NJ" couldn't have killed them anywhere?
And every single one does this from what I have seen. I have to search the KXYZ to find out which city it is.
In the long run I guess splendid isolation turned out to be no match for being in a walkable city with a research university, research hospitals, major pharma headquarters (J&J) right in town, and a train station across the street that goes right to New York, EWR, and Princeton.
Still, I'm suffering a bit of vertigo that Bell Labs (or what's left of it) is moving to where the old Rutgers Bookstore and Albany St parking garage used to be (!) and that suddenly the gritty, grungy New Brunswick I used to bum around 20 years ago looks more like Kendall Square, where I work now. (And which also didn't used to look like it does now, I suppose.)
(Disclaimer: this is a super local story for me; my dad worked at Bell Labs in Holmdel, and I'm a third generation Rutgers grad whose mom grew up walking into downtown New Brunswick, and I probably spent way too much of my early 20s at the Starbucks on George Street and the Melody Bar, both RIP.)
What is it with incumbent old companies far past their prime paradoxically having much more stringent high standards for hiring? Is it a coping mechanism to believe that they are still at the caliber they once were by treating getting a job at their company like some necessarily arduous odyssey?
I don't think it's some grand mystery; they're past their prime, not in a phase of aggressive growth.
Layoffs at these places are far more likely than new hires. If a new hire is made, it's exceptional, and naturally involves a lot of deliberation/friction.
> The move also means that Nokia Bell Labs will be leaving its iconic campus in Murray Hill, one that began as the Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1925 — and one where researchers are credited with the development of the transistor, among other major innovations. Ten Nobel Prizes have been awarded for work completed there.
For those looking to learn more about Bell Labs the typical book recommendation is The Idea Factory:
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/303275/the-idea-fac...
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The time to travel and the standard deviation is relevant, not the 20 miles. In northern New Jersey, 20 miles could be 1 hour or 20min.
Looking at Google Maps driving time at Sunday 3:23AM, it takes 30min from Rutgers NB to Nokia in New Providence, NJ. Which I am sure is much longer and volatile during times of congestion.
Pour one out for ihnp4.
I now live about 10 mins from this new building. I hope it fares better! The site has been a hole in the ground for several years now, and I've been wondering what would get built and who would occupy it.
"The Indian Hill Lab at Naperville is built on the site of an ancient Potawatomi signaling hill. On the prominence where Indians once sent up smoke signals, Bell Labs' scientists are building electronic equipment which has and will revolutionize telephone service. It is doubtful that Indian Hill developments will produce anything of such generalized use as the transistor."
Full Disclosure: Bell Labs alum from the late 90s.
The current property is huge:
Still cool I suppose! :)
@dang: please swap, the site is blocking EU.