Gordon BELL Senior Researcher, Microsoft Bay Area Research Center
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| 1956-1957 | B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 1960-1983 | Vice President of Research and Development, Digital Equipment Corporation - responsible for Digital's products |
| Architect of various mini- and time-sharing computers (e.g. the PDP-6) and led the development of DEC's VAX and the VAX Computing Environment. | |
| Involved in, or responsible for, the design of many products at Digital, Encore, Ardent, and a score of other companies. | |
| Involved in the design of about 30 multiprocessors; and investor of over 80 startup companies. | |
| 1966-1972 | Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University |
| 1986-1987 | First Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation's Computing Directorate |
| Since 1987 sponsored "The Gordon Bell Prize" for Parallelism administered by a committee from the annual ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing | |
| Boards and technical advisory boards of Cradle Technology, DiamondCluster Exchange, Dust Inc. and The Vanguard Group | |
| Founding board member of The Computer History Museum at 1401 Shoreline, Mountain View, CA, established in 1999 | |
| 1995 | Joined Microsoft |
Mitgliedschaften
| Member of various professional organizations including: | |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Fellow), | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow), | |
| ACM (Fellow), | |
| IEEE (Fellow and Computer Pioneer) | |
| National Academy of Engineering |
Publikationen
| 1970 "Computer Structures: Readings and Examples", with Allen Newell, McGraw-Hill publisher. | |
| 1982 "Computer Structures: Principles and Examples" Siewiorek, Bell, and Newell, McGraw-Hill publisher. | |
| 1991 High Tech Ventures: The Guide to Entrepreneurial Success with John McNamara, Addison-Wesley publisher. |
Auszeichnungen
| IEEE Von Neumann Medal, IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award | |
| D. Eng. (honorary), Worcester Polytechnic Institute | |
| Fellow of the Computer History Museum, | |
| AEA Inventor Award for the greatest economic contribution to the New England region, | |
| IEEE 2001 Vladamir Karapetoff Eminent Member's Award of Eta Kappa Nu, | |
| 1991 National Medal of Technology |
