Gordon Bell
Chester Gordon Bell was an American electrical engineer and manager. An early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), from 1960 to 1966, Bell designed several of their PDP machines and later served as the company's Vice President of Engineering from 1972 to 1983, overseeing development of the VAX computer systems. Bell's later career included roles as an entrepreneur, investor, founding Assistant Director of NSF's Computing and Information Science and Engineering Directorate from 1986 to 1987, and researcher emeritus at Microsoft Research from 1995 to 2015.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Kirksville
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of New South Wales
- Awards
- 🏆 IEEE Fellow🏆 IEEE John von Neumann Medal🏆 National Medal of Technology and Innovation🏆 Eckert–Mauchly Award
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"Twenty-five years from now...Computers will be exactly like telephones. They are probably going to be communicating all the time ... I would hope that by the year 2000 there is this big infrastructure…"
"Somebody once said, 'He's never wrong about the future, but he does tend to be wrong about how long it takes."
"In 10 years, you'll see 99% of the hardware and software systems sold through what are fundamentally retail stores."
"A Broadband Cable for TV is like a sewer pipe that in principle can carry gas, water, and waste: it is easy to get all that shit in there, but hard to separate it out again."
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Timeline
1934
Born
Birth2024
Died
Death
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