My friend and colleague Dahlia Malkhi from the glory days of MSR-SVC (RIP), has posted her insightful thoughts on industrial computing research labs. As someone that spent quite a few years in three research labs, the story of these labs is not simple. It is not even linear – management philosophies come and go and come back again (even within the same company). But nobody can ignore the remarkable cumulative impact those labs have had on Computing and on Computer Science.