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Gordon Bell is a senior researcher in Microsoft's Media Presence Research Group part of the Bay Area Research Center (BARC). Gordon spent 23 years (1960-1983) 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. Bell has an SB and SM degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1956-57), was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of New South Wales (1957-58), Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University (1966-72) and received an honorary D. Eng. from WPI (1993). 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. | 