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

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software that drive next-generation communications networks. Backed by
Bell Labs research and development, Lucent uses its strengths in mobility,
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services, to create new revenue-generating opportunities for its
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