| | Lucent Bell Labs' Top Innovations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Progressive geometry compression algorithm, 12 times more efficient than standard approach, makes widespread 3-D communication practical. |
 | | Karmarkar Linear Programming Algorithm, developed by mathematician Narendra Karmarkar, enabled computers to economically solve incredibly complex problems involving thousands of interacting variables. |
 | | Fractional quantum Hall effect, discovered by Horst Stormer of Bell Labs and two former Bell Labs researchers, Robert Laughlin and Daniel Tsui, revealing a new state of matter created when electrons come together to form quasi-particles with fractional electrical charges. |
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