C. Gordon Bell

Gordon Bell is a Researcher Emeritus at Microsoft working on lifelogging. He spent 23 years at Digital Equipment Corporation as vice president of R&D; while there, he was responsible for the first mini- and timesharing computers and led the development of DEC's highly-successful VAX architecture. From 1966-1972 he was a professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University. With Ken Olsen, DEC CEO, and Gwen Bell, he founded the Digital Computer Museum in Marlborough, MA (1979); becoming The Computer Museum, Boston, MA (1984); and The Computer Museum History Center, Mountain View, CA (1999, prior to the Computer History Museum (2000).