Crossword clues for lucent
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lucent \Lu"cent\,
[L. lucens, p. pr. of lucere to shine, fr. lux, lucis, light.] Shining; bright; resplendent. `` The sun's lucent or
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--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "shining, bright, luminous," from Latin lucentem (nominative lucens), present participle of lucere "to shine" (see light (n.)). Meaning "lucid, clear" is from 1820. Related: Lucently.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Emitting light; shining, luminous. 2 translucent; clear, lucid.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Lucent Technologies, Inc., was an American multinational telecommunications equipment company headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey, in the United States. It was established on September 30, 1996, through the divestiture of the former AT&T Technologies business unit of AT&T Corporation, which included Western Electric and Bell Labs.
Lucent was merged with Alcatel SA of France in a merger of equals on December 1, 2006, forming Alcatel-Lucent.
Usage examples of "lucent".
At Lucent, Andrew Garman, Tom Uhlman, Ralph Faison, and Stephen Socolof discussed their experiences with me.
And over the next five years, Lucent enjoyed many victories in the market with its new products.
Cisco nevertheless consistently managed to keep up with Lucent, and occasionally got to market ahead of it.
Although Bell Labs technologies did create many new products and services for Lucent, Cisco also seemed to introduce many new products and services, despite its lack of anything like the deep research capabilities of Bell Labs.
Chapter 7 shows how Lucent invests corporate VC to create new technology companies out of its underutilized technology within Bell Labs.
This brings in additional money to Lucent, creates additional options for its research staff, and frees up resources to hire new researchers.
As a result, Lucent acquires valuable feedback not available if the technology had stayed bottled up in the lab.
By getting the technology out to the market sooner, Lucent learns more quickly about customer needs, trends, and new opportunities.
A more systematic model for creating new businesses out of internal technologies has been implemented at Lucent Technologies, the home of Bell Laboratories.
Finally, the microelectronics business within Lucent was spun off in 2001 into a new company, Agere, and some of the lab went with that as well.
This meant that a delicate balance had to be struck between the creation of new pathways for established research to get to market and the need to focus research on the Lucent business as much as practicable.
NVG balanced the protection of the internal innovation process with the development of external paths to market for Lucent technologies.
The process started with periodic informal meetings between NVG managers and Lucent researchers.
Once a new idea or discovery was nominated, the internal Lucent business groups were given first priority over the technology.
NVG and the many managers within Bell Labs or the Lucent business groups.