I had lunch with Denis Ritchie today. Which was nice.
Did you ask the gentleman why they chose to re-name their company after Lucifer, in 1996?<br /> <br /> "In 1996, AT&T (this time voluntarily) spun off its systems and technology organizations into Lucent Technologies, while AT&T kept the services business. Bell Labs stayed mostly with Lucent, though some of our colleagues helped form a new AT&T labs, much as some of us went to Bellcore in 1984. The new corporate logo usually includes the line "Bell Labs Innovations."
Andy Schwarm
They didn't name it after lucifer - this is an Internet myth. Lux is the latin for light, hence lucent, lucid, lucifer etc. (I have spoken to him about it many moons ago)
Lindsay