Chester Gordon Bell was born on August 19,1934 and is an American electrical engineer and manager.
14 Facts About Gordon Bell
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Gordon Bell grew up helping with the family business, Bell Electric, repairing appliances and wiring homes.
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Gordon Bell received a BS, and MS in electrical engineering from MIT.
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Gordon Bell then went to the New South Wales University of Technology in Australia on a Fulbright Scholarship, where he taught classes on computer design, programmed one of the first computers to arrive in Australia, and published his first academic paper.
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Gordon Bell retired from DEC in 1983 after a heart attack, but soon after founded Encore Computer, one of the first shared memory, multiple-microprocessor computers to use the snooping cache structure.
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The first Gordon Bell Prize was won by researchers at the Parallel Processing Division of Sandia National Laboratory for work done on the 1000-processor nCUBE 10 hypercube.
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Between 1991 and 1995, Gordon Bell advised Microsoft in its efforts to start a research group, then joined it full-time in August 1995, studying telepresence and related ideas.
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Gordon Bell is the experiment subject for the MyLifeBits project, an experiment in life-logging.
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Gordon Bell continues to do so, gathering web pages browsed, phone and instant messaging conversations and the like more or less automatically.
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Gordon Bell was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1977 for contributions to the architecture of minicomputers.
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Gordon Bell was named an Eta Kappa Nu Eminent Member in 2007.
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Gordon Bell co-founded The Computer Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, with his wife Gwen Gordon Bell in 1979.
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Gordon Bell was a founding board member of its successor, the Computer History Museum located in Mountain View, California.
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Gordon Bell predicted that home and body area networks would form by 2010.