>The project, he said, was "very organic, bottom up," born from "talking over lunch or scrawling randomly on the whiteboard in the office."
Many of the breakthrough and game changing inventions were done this way with the back of the envelope discussions, the other popular example was the Ethernet network.
Some good stories of similar culture in AT&T Bell lab is well described in the Hamming's book [1].
[1] Stripe Press The Art of Doing Science and Engineering:
Many of the breakthrough and game changing inventions were done this way with the back of the envelope discussions, the other popular example was the Ethernet network.
Some good stories of similar culture in AT&T Bell lab is well described in the Hamming's book [1].
[1] Stripe Press The Art of Doing Science and Engineering:
https://press.stripe.com/the-art-of-doing-science-and-engine...