Bell Labs' Willard Boyle and George Smith receive Draper Prize forthe Development of the Charged-coupled Device (Forwarded)

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Bell Labs' Willard Boyle and George Smith receive Draper Prize for the
Development of the Charged-coupled Device

Pioneers Honored with World's Top Engineering Award for Invention That
Ushered in the Modern Age of Digital Imaging

MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Bell Labs, the research and development arm of
Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU), today announced that Dr. Willard Boyle
and Dr. George Smith, both former researchers at Bell Labs, are this
year's recipients of one of the highest honors in engineering, the
National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) Charles Stark Draper Prize, for
their invention and development of the charge-coupled device, or CCD.
This award honors engineers whose accomplishments have significantly
impacted society.

CCD technology, which transforms patterns of light into useful digital
information, is the basis for many forms of modern imaging. Today the
most noticeable impact is its universal use in digital cameras, video
cameras, bar code readers, and image scanners such as copy machines.
Both Boyle and Smith were members of the Semiconductor Components
Division at Bell Labs and began their seminal work on the CCD in 1969.

The award will be presented on February 21st, 2006, at a ceremony in
Washington D.C., during National Engineers Week. Accompanying the
recognition is an award of $500,000, which will be shared between Boyle
and Smith.

"We would like to congratulate Boyle and Smith on receiving this
significant award and to thank them for their pioneering work in CCD
technology," said Rod Alferness, Senior Vice President of Research for
Bell Labs. "The CCD is one of those crucial breakthroughs that lead to
innovations in sometimes unexpected areas. In fact, Bell Labs continues
this legacy of innovation today and currently has research that builds
on Boyle and Smith's breakthroughs in areas as diverse as nanotechnology
and advanced photonics for applications in communications, next
generation computing, and homeland defense."

Leveraging pioneering foundational work in both the transistor and solar
cell technologies, both of which were invented at Bell Labs, Drs. Boyle
and Smith designed and developed the first CCD in 1969. By 1970, the
Bell Labs researchers had built the CCD into the world's first
solid-state video camera. In 1975, they demonstrated the first CCD
camera with image quality sharp enough for broadcast television.

Since its invention, the CCD has spawned significant new industries and
markets by enabling a wide range of products including digital cameras,
camcorders, high-definition television, security monitoring, medical
endoscopy, modern astronomy and video conferencing. The insights behind
CCDs also played a crucial role in the emergence of optical networking,
which is the underlying transport technology for both the Internet and
all other core communication networks today.

Beginning in 1983, telescopes were first outfitted with solid-state CCD
cameras, which enabled astronomers to study objects thousands of times
fainter than the most sensitive existing photographic plates, and
enabled scientists to image in seconds what would have taken hours
before. Today, most optical observatories, including the Hubble Space
Telescope, rely on digital information systems built around "mosaics" of
ultra sensitive CCD chips. CCD-enabled cameras also are used in
satellite observations of the earth for environmental monitoring,
surveying, and surveillance.

From 1953 to 1979, Boyle led Bell Labs research in optical and
satellite communications, digital and quantum electronics, computing,
and radio astronomy. Boyle was also part of the scientific team that
helped NASA select the site for the first Apollo landing on the moon in
1969. He now resides in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Smith performed research at Bell Labs from 1959 to 1986. For much of
this time, he led research aimed at creating novel lasers and other
semiconductor devices. He continues to reside in New Jersey.

The impact of Boyle and Smith's CCD innovation has also been recognized
with the following awards: the Franklin Institute's Stuart Ballantine
Medal in 1973, the IEEE's 1974 Morris Liebmann Award in 1974, the C&C
Prize from Japan in 1999, the IEEE Device Research Conference
Breakthrough Award in 1999, the Photographic Society of America's
Progress Medal award, and the 2001 Edwin Land Medal.

Endowed by the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., the Draper Prize
recognizes outstanding engineering achievements that have contributed to
the welfare and freedom of humanity. The first Draper Prize was awarded
in 1989 to Jack S. Kilby and Robert N. Noyce for their invention of the
integrated circuit. Recipients of the prize have included the inventors
of the turbojet engine, the developer of FORTRAN computer language, and
the developers of satellite communications.

For a technical discussion on how a CCD works visit Molecular
Expressions Website,

http://microscopy.fsu.edu/primer/digitalimaging/concepts/ccdanatomy.html

About Bell Labs and Lucent Technologies

Bell Labs is the leading source of new communications technologies and
has been for eighty years. It has generated more than 31,000 patents
since 1925 and has played a pivotal role in inventing or perfecting key
communications technologies, including transistors, digital networking
and signal processing, lasers and fiber-optic communications systems,
communications satellites, cellular telephony, electronic switching of
calls, touch-tone dialing, and modems. Bell Labs scientists have
received six Nobel Prizes in Physics, nine U.S. National Medals of
Science and eight U.S. National Medals of Technology. For more
information about Bell Labs, visit its Web site at
http://www.bell-labs.com

Lucent Technologies designs and delivers the systems, services and
software that drive next-generation communications networks. Backed by
Bell Labs research and development, Lucent uses its strengths in
mobility, optical, software, data and voice networking technologies, as
well as services, to create new revenue-generating opportunities for its
customers, while enabling them to quickly deploy and better manage their
networks. Lucent's customer base includes communications service
providers, governments and enterprises worldwide. For more information
on Lucent Technologies, which has headquarters in Murray Hill, N.J.,
USA, visit
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