Research and Development

I was joking with a friend about Fortran Server Pages and how silly that would be the other day. A quick google search didn’t reveal anything, although it did unearth some Fortran CGI from the FCC (with source code). While investigating further, I found myself arriving at the R&D sections of a few different companies. I thought I’d collect my findings for you:

• Lucent Public and Non-Exclusive Limited-Use Software from Bell Labs: From CORBA to OWL, it’s in there.
• Bell Labs Software Downloads: Inlcuding some Plan 9 stuff.
• AT&T Labs Research – Software Tools: Graphviz, UWin, classic text to speech stuff and more.
• IBM Research: No direct software downloads but I could spend a week exploring the links here.
• IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Computer Science, Mobile computing
• IBM alphaWorks: Lots of amazing, obscure, and interesting software projects including a ton of Java.
• Alphabetical list of IBM Research projects
• Google Labs: A relative newcomer with some big ideas.
• Microsoft Research: I’ve seen some impressive demos from MS Research.
• HP and Compaq Labs
• HP Labs Downloads: A little bit of everything
• HP Labs worldwide sites
• HP Labs Research
• HP Labs Reports
• Compaq Research and software downloads
• Sun Microsystems Laboratories: Projects and downloads
• Intel Research including a collection of open source software
• NEC Labs has lots of patents that they’d love to rent you. Oh yeah, they have some interesting projects too.
• Yahoo Research Labs is a little quieter than Google but I’m sure they’re doing some cool stuff too.
• Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center covers research from mobile technology to MEMS.
• May opensource.lineo.com and busybox.lineo.com rest in peace. The Lineo open source site was one that I tended to stumble upon every 6 months or so for one reason or another. The cool embedded software page rocked.
• Nokia Research does cool things with the semantic web and mobile tech.
• NTT DoCoMo has DoCoMo Euro-Labs and I’m sure many other research facilites that I’m not aware of.
• BT Exact is the research arm of British Telecom
• RSA Labs does all that freaky crypto stuff.
• Motorola Labs has an interesting History page with their logo over the years, but it is filled with lots of broken links and barebones pages.
• Kodak R&D seems to be all about the patents nowadays.
• Apple doesn’t really admit to doing research much anymore, but there seems to be good food to eat near R&D 4. Hey wait, I wonder if Apple even knows about waves.apple.com:81 which is probably some old box in the corner collecting dust. I wonder what cyberdog team members are up to today.

This isn’t an exhaustive list by any means, but there are a lot of amazing research projects, downloadable software, and amazing papers on the other end of those links. If you have some free time, you should look around a few of them.