The Information Age would not have had come as far without the team of researchers at Corning Glass. Using Fiberoptic wire, which can carry 65,000 times more information than conventional copper wire this team started their work.

Corning Labs' Robert Maurer (Ph.D. MIT, 1951), Donald Keck (Ph.D. Michigan State University, 1967), and Peter Schultz (Ph.D. Rutgers University, 1967)were the team that led the way. They designed and produced "Optical Waveguide Fibers" made of fused silica.This information was "encoded" into a pattern of light waves at a given source can be decoded at a destination even a thousand miles away.

y Maurer, Keck and Schultz commercialization of fiberoptics, first for long-distance telephone service, and later for computer-related telecommunications and even medical devices was the wave of the future in communication..

Fiberoptic wire installed in the U.S. today is based on the research of Maurer, Keck and Schultz. The National Academy of Engineering lists Fiberoptic communications as one of the 10 outstanding engineering achievements of the last 25 years.