Bell System Technical Journal
| Discipline | Electrical engineering, Computer science and Communications |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publication details | |
| History | Published since 1922 |
| Publisher | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | BLTJ |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 1089-7089 |
| Links | |
Bell Labs Technical Journal is the in-house journal for scientists of Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent. It is published quarterly by John Wiley & Sons.
The journal has been through several name changes during its lifetime, including the Bell System Technical Journal, AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal and AT&T Technical Journal. The journal was first published as Bell System Technical Journal in 1922.[1]
Famous features
It is most famous for Claude Shannon's paper "A mathematical theory of communication" which founded the field of information theory. Also important are the two Unix-themed issues that appeared in 1978 and 1984, containing many landmark papers from the system's developers.
The journal is also notorious for a November, 1954 article "In-Band Single-Frequency Signaling" (A. Weaver and N. A. Newell) that revealed the internal operation of the long distance switching system in use at that time. This article enabled phone phreaks to develop the Blue Box apparatus that manipulated the switching system to allow them to make free long-distance calls.
2009 Nobel Prize physicists Willard Boyle and George E. Smith described their new Charge Couple Device in the journal: "Charge coupled semiconductor devices." Bell System Technical Journal, 49(4): 587-93, April 1970.
Notes
- ^ Data from Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.
References
- Claude E. Shannon. A mathematical theory of communication. Bell System Technical Journal, 27:379–423 and 623–656, July and October 1948.
- UNIX Time-Sharing System. Bell System Technical Journal, 57(6), July–August 1978.
- The UNIX System. Bell System Technical Journal, 63(8), October 1984.
External links
- Bell System Technical Journal, 1922-1983 (full paper archives courtesy of Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs)
- Bell Labs Technical Journal
- Directory of Journal Papers (incomplete, but being updated)
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