Bolt, Beranek and Newman; the last names of the three founders of BBN Technologies and the original name of the company. Two Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors, Richard Bolt and Leo Beranek, and former M.I.T. student Robert Newman, founded BBN as an acoustics consulting firm in 1948.
Bolt, Beranek and Newman. The company contracted to build the Interface Message Processors.
Bolt, Beranek, and Newman. Originally a small scientific company in Cambridge Massachusetts staffed mainly by MIT graduates. Received the first DARPA grant to construct the Arpanet. Famous for employing Will Crowther, the author of the dwarf-obsessed computer game Adventure. Now a subsidiary of GTE.
Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc.: The Cambridge, MA, company responsible for development, operation and monitoring of the ARPANET, and later, the Internet core gateway system, the CSNET Coordination and Information Center (CIC), and NSFnet Network Service Center (NNSC).
Bolt, Beranek and Newman, in Cambridge, MA - founded by three partners in the 1950s as a consulting business in acoustic engineering. BBN shifted its business to computers as they became more important. In 1969, BBN was awarded the contract to build the first IMPs. more of the story...
Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc. High-technology company located in Massachusetts that developed and maintained the ARPANET (and later, the Internet) core gateway system. See also BBN Planet.