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13 Facts About Gordon Bell

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Chester Gordon Bell was an American electrical engineer and manager.

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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 returned to DEC in 1972 as vice-president of engineering, where he was in charge of the successful VAX computer.

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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 was the experiment subject for the MyLifeBits project, an experiment in life-logging.

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Gordon Bell died of aspiration pneumonia at his home in Coronado, California, on May 17,2024.

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Gordon Bell predicted that home and body area networks would form by 2010.

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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.