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Alastair Glass, Bell Labs![[ Alastair Glass speaks ]](../images/party_glass.jpeg)
We're also celebrating tonight Charlie Townes' 57th wedding anniversary. (applause) And, as his wife says, it's to the same husband. While we're partying, I think it's a good idea to remember that we're celebrating a singular event that is probably going to change mankind as much as any other invention in our lifetime. We're especially lucky and honored to have the inventors here tonight with us. All of our lives and our jobs, I presume, have been enabled by this invention. This party is dependent on (a) the invention of the laser, (b) the fact that Wayne Knox and Donna Cunningham (Bell Labs PR) decided that it's time we celebrated and that we should be celebrating things more often, and (c) that Gerry Butters, who is the chief of our optical networking business, was willing to fund it. [more] Speakers in this Section |
