Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lucent Technologies to Bring Business and Technology Expertise to National Non-Profit Health Organization NEW YORK, Jan. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Board of Directors of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America today named Patricia "Pat" F.

To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2008, +1-202-514- 1888 (TDD) WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Lucent Technologies Inc.

By Reading Eagle, Pa. Jun. 17--1947 : Technicians at Bell Telephone Research Laboratories, Murray Hill, N.J., invent and patent the transistor. Aug. 22, 1952 : Western Electric Co.

Two U.S. private-equity firms have agreed to buy a telecommunications equipment company that was once part of Lucent Technologies Inc. for $8.2 billion. Silver Lake Partners and TPG Capital LLC said their purchase of Avaya Inc.

A computer disk containing personal information on thousands of Lucent employees and retirees has been missing for at least 10 days, Alcatel-Lucent said Thursday. A vendor informed the company May 7 that the disk could not be located, Alcatel-Lucent said in a prepared statement.