Operations Research at Bell Laboratories Through the 1970s: Part I
本文是贝尔实验室运筹学中心在1970年代末撰写的历史回顾，涵盖组织沿革和话务理论工程，对了解早期电信运筹学发展有参考价值。
This historical account of operations research at Bell Laboratories was drafted in the late 1970s when the authors were part of the Operations Research Center within Bell Laboratories at AT&T; it has not previously appeared in the open literature. We have added a few references to later publications that describe particular aspects of the period covered. Discussions of technological practices and organizational arrangements expressed in the present tense represent a viewpoint of about 1980, before “divestiture” split up the Bell System. The principal topics in this issue of Operations Research are the organizational history, and teletraffic theory and engineering. Upcoming issues of Operations Research will include parts II and III of this account, comprising capacity expansion in telephone networks, operations analysis, applied statistics, and related OR activities. A comprehensive table of contents for parts I, II, and III can be found in the Online Collection of the Operations Research Home Page, at www.informs.org/pubs .