Editing Digital Equipment Corporation (section)

== Research and people ==
DEC's Research Laboratories (or Research Labs, as they were commonly known) conducted DEC's corporate research. Some of them were continued in operation by [[Compaq]] and are still operated by [[Hewlett-Packard]]. The laboratories were:

* Cambridge Research Laboratory (CRL) in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], US
* MetroWest Technology Campus (MTC) in [[Maynard, Massachusetts]], US
* Network Systems Laboratory (NSL) in [[Palo Alto, California]], US
* [[DEC Systems Research Center|Systems Research Center]] (SRC) in [[Palo Alto, California]], US
* Paris Research Laboratory (PRL) in Paris, [[France]]
* Western Research Laboratory (WRL) in [[Palo Alto, California]], US
* Western Software Laboratory (WSL) in [[Palo Alto, California]], US

Some of the former employees of DEC's Research Labs or DEC's R&D in general include:
* [[Gordon Bell]]: technical visionary, VP Engineering 1972–1983; later moved to [[Microsoft Research]]
* [[Luiz André Barroso]], pioneered the design of the modern data center<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Metz |first=Cade |title=Google's Data Center Engineer Shares Secrets of 'Warehouse' Computing |url=https://www.wired.com/2012/01/google-man/ |access-date=2024-09-08 |magazine=Wired |language=en-US |issn=1059-1028}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Paresh |first=Dave |date=September 27, 2023 |title=Google Mourns Veteran Engineer Luiz André Barroso Who Invented the Modern Data Center |url=https://www.wired.com/story/google-mourns-luiz-andre-barroso-veteran-engineer-invented-the-modern-data-center/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927114834/https://www.wired.com/story/google-mourns-luiz-andre-barroso-veteran-engineer-invented-the-modern-data-center/ |magazine=Wired |access-date=September 8, 2024 |archive-date=September 27, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Leonard Bosack]]: a co-founder of [[Cisco Systems]]
* [[Michael Burrows (computer scientist)|Mike Burrows]]: an author of the [[Burrows–Wheeler transform]]
* [[Luca Cardelli]]: co-designer of the [[Modula-3]] language 
* [[Dave Cutler]]: led [[RSX-11M]], [[OpenVMS|VAX/VMS]], [[VAXELN]] and [[DEC MICA|MICA]] operating systems development; then led [[Windows NT]] development at [[Microsoft]]{{discuss|unsourced/exaggerated synopses of notable people}}
* [[Edson deCastro|Ed deCastro]]: became co-founder of [[Data General|Data General Corporation]]
* [[Alan Eustace]]: co-author of early profiling tools; a Senior Vice President of Engineering at Google; a world-record breaker in the stratosphere jump (2014)
* [[Jim Gettys]]: early developer of [[X Window System]]{{discuss|unsourced/exaggerated synopses of notable people}}
* [[Henri Gouraud (computer scientist)|Henri Gouraud]]: inventor of the [[Gouraud shading]]
* [[Jim Gray (computer scientist)|Jim Gray]]: a Turing Award winner for database research; went missing on a ship trip
* [[Alan Kotok]]: chief architect of the [[PDP-10]] series and prolific member of [[World Wide Web Consortium]] (W3C)
* [[Leslie Lamport]]: a Turing Award recipient; first creator of [[LaTeX]] macros;
* [[Butler Lampson]]: a contributor to a wide range of personal computing concepts like [[WYSIWYG]] [[text formatting]] program
* John Leng: computer pioneer,<ref>{{cite conference |title=A Time-Shared Computer for Real-Time Information Processing |conference=Instrumentation Techniques in Nuclear Pulse Analysis |publisher=National Academy of Science - National Research Council |date=1962|author1=J. Leng |author2=J.A. Quarrington |author3=P.K. Patawardham |author4=G. Bell |author4-link=Gordon Bell |website=Gordon Bell Archives |url= https://gordonbell.azurewebsites.net/digital/Pulse%20Height%20Analyzer%20Leng%20and%20bellc.pdf |quote-page=277 |access-date=February 12, 2025}}</ref> vice president of the large computer group,<ref>{{cite web |title=Artifact Details |url= https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102630451|website=Computer History Museum |publisher=Digital Equipment Corporation|access-date=February 12, 2025}}</ref> coined the term "minicomputer"<ref>{{cite book |first1=Glenn |last1=Rifkin |first2=George |last2=Harrar |title=The Ultimate Entrepreneur |publisher=Contemporary Books |date=1983 |page=[https://archive.org/details/ultimateentrepre0000rifk/page/72/mode/2up?q=minicomputer 72] |isbn=1-55958-022-4 }}</ref>
* [[Scott A. McGregor]]: co-author of the [[X Window System]], version 11<ref name="The X Window System">{{cite web|last1=Gettys|first1=James|author-link1=Jim Gettys|last2=Karlton|first2=Philip L.|last3=McGregor|first3=Scott|author-link3=Scott A. McGregor|date=December 10, 1990|title=The X Window System, Version 11|url=https://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/CRL-90-8.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030901030254/http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/CRL-90-8.pdf |archive-date=2003-09-01 |url-status=dead|access-date=September 7, 2022|publisher=Digital Equipment Corporation and [[Silicon Graphics|Silicon Graphics Computer Systems]]|page=36}}</ref>
* [[Louis Monier]]: an Internet and software [[Entrepreneurship|entrepreneur]]
* [[Isaac Nassi]]: contributor to [[Ada (programming language)|Ada programming language]]; co-author of the [[Nassi–Shneiderman diagram]] 
* [[Radia Perlman]]: a pioneer in [[computer network]]ing standardization; author of [[Spanning Tree Protocol]]
* [[Marcus J. Ranum|Marcus Ranum]]: a computer and network security developer credited with a number innovations in [[Firewall (computing)|firewalls]]
* [[Brian Reid (computer scientist)|Brian Reid]]: an inventor of [[Scribe (markup language)|Scribe markup language]]; pioneer in networking and firewalls
* [[Paul Vixie]]: a co-author of the [[BIND]] DNS server software
* [[Sanjay Ghemawat]]
* [[Jeff Dean (computer scientist)|Jeff Dean]]
* [[Patrick O'Neil]]: a computer scientist well known for his work on [[database]]s

Some of the former employees of Digital Equipment Corp were responsible for developing [[DEC Alpha]] and [[StrongARM]]:
* [[Daniel W. Dobberpuhl]]
* [[Jim Keller (engineer)|Jim Keller]]
* Rich Witek

[[Grace Hopper]] worked for Digital Equipment Corporation as a consultant after her retirement from the [[United States Navy]].

Some of the work of the Research Labs was published in the ''Digital Technical Journal'',<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/dtj/past.htm| title = Digital Technical Journal&nbsp;– Online Issues| access-date = September 7, 2022| archive-date = January 23, 2023| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230123052747/https://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/dtj/past.htm| url-status = dead}}</ref> which was in published from 1985 until 1998. At least some of the research reports are available online.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hpl.hp.com/hplabs/index/Compaq-DEC |title=HP Labs Technical Reports |access-date=September 7, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206054747/https://www.hpl.hp.com/hplabs/index/Compaq-DEC |archive-date=February 6, 2022 |url-status=dead}}</ref>