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American industrial research laboratory created by AT&T in 1925 — which invented the transistor, the laser, the solar cell, Unix, C, and information theory — making it the most productive research laboratory in the history of technology.
American multinational technology company — dominant in mainframes and business machines from the 1950s through 1970s — whose 1981 decision to outsource the PC's operating system to Microsoft (retaining no rights to DOS) was the most consequential licensing mistake in business history.
Hungarian-American mathematician — who made foundational contributions to quantum mechanics (von Neumann algebras), game theory (minimax theorem), computing (von Neumann architecture), nuclear weapons design, and self-replicating automata — widely considered the greatest mathematician of the 20th century after Gödel.