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1. 1. El Dorado Ventures: Technology Partner Network

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   Published on: 5/9/2008   Last Visited: 5/9/2008

   Gordon Bell El Dorado Ventures: Technology Partner Network
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   Gordon Bell
   
   Gordon Bell is a senior researcher in Microsoft's Media Presence Research Group, a part of the Bay Area Research Center (BARC). Previously, he spent 23 years at Digital Equipment Corp., where he led the design and development of the VAX computer as VP of Research and Development. He was Director of the National Science Foundation's Computing Directorate and led the cross-agency initiative that created the Internet. He has co-authored six books and more than 100 papers about computer architecture and holds seven patents. In 1991, he was awarded the National Medal of Technology. Gordon received his BSEE and MSEE from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

2. 2. www.vizzme.com

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   Published on: 5/4/2008   Last Visited: 5/4/2008

   Gordon Bell, Principal Researcher, Microsoft
   
   Gordon Bell is a principal researcher with the Microsoft eSciences Research Group, San Francisco (1995-) working on tools to capture everything in a person's life and Visiting Professor, Macquarie University's Institute for Innovation. His career includes: vice president of R & D, Digital Equipment Corp. (1960-1983); Professor of Computer Science and electrical engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University (1966-72); founding Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation's Computing and Information Sciences and Engineering (CISE) Directorate (1986-1988); National Research and Education Network (NREN) panel chair (1987-1988) for creating the internet; advisor/investor in 90+ start-up companies; and a founding trustee of the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA. He is a Diamond Exchange Fellow, on TTI Vanguard's Advisory Board, and the Dept. of Energy's Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee.
   
   Since 1987 he has sponsored the ACM's Gordon Bell Prizes for parallelism awarded annually at Supercomputing. He has BS and MS degrees from MIT (1956-57), University of New South Wales Fulbright Scholar (1957-58) an honorary D. Eng. from WPI (1993), and is a member of the AAAS, ACM, IEEE, and National Academy of Engineering. Awards include: ACM-IEEE Eckert-Mauchley Award, the IEEE's Computer Pioneer and McDowell Awards, and the IEEE Von Neumann Medal, Fellow of the Computer History Museum, the AEA Inventor Award for the economic contribution to New England, the IEEE 2001 Karapetoff Eminent Member's Award of Eta Kappa Nu, and The 1991 National Medal of Technology "for his continuing intellectual and industrial achievements in the field of computer design; and for his leading role in establishing ... computers that serve as a significant tool for engineering, science, and industry."
   
   Specifically, he was the architect of various mini- and time-sharing computers (DEC PDP-6) and led the development of DEC's VAX and the VAX Computing Environment. Bell has been involved in or responsible for, the design of many products at Digital and a score of other companies. Bell has authored books and papers about computers and start-up companies including Computer Structures with Allen Newell (1971) and Dan Siewiorek and Allen Newell (1982).
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   Bell's Law describes how semiconductor and communication technology evolves to create new computer classes and industries.

3. 3. Cradle Technologies - Dr. Gordon Bell

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   Published on: 4/22/2008   Last Visited: 4/22/2008

   Dr. Gordon Bell Cradle Technologies - Dr. Gordon Bell
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   Dr. Gordon Bell Microsoft Fellow
   
   Dr. Bell spent 23 years at Digital Equipment Corporation as vice president of research and development, where he was responsible for Digital's products. He was the architect of various mini- and time-sharing computers and led the development of DEC's VAX and the VAX Computing Environment. Bell has been involved in, or responsible for, the design of many products at Digital, Encore, Ardent, and a score of other companies. He has been involved in the design of about 30 multiprocessors.
   
   Dr. Bell has a SB and SM degree from MIT (1956-57) and honorary D. Eng. from WPI (1993). During 1966-72 he was Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University. In 1986-1987 he was the first Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation's Computing Directorate. He led the National Research and Education Network (NREN) panel that became the NII/GII, and was an author of the first High Performance Computer and Communications Initiative.
   
   Dr. Bell is the author of numerous books and papers about computer structures and startup companies.
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   Bell is on the boards and technical advisory boards of Ambit Design, Cirrus Logic, Diamond Exchange, Fakespace, Magnifi, Pictranet, University Video Communications, Silicon Sorcery, Vanguard Group. He is a director of the Bell-Mason Group supplying expert systems for venture development to startups, investors, governments, and intrapreneurial ventures. He is a founder and Overseer of The Computer Museum, Boston and the new Computer Museum History Center at Moffett Field.
   
   He has received a substantial number of awards from professional organizations, and the local and federal governments.