Advisory board
• John
Perry Barlow
• Gorden
Bell
• Peter
Cochrane
• Deborah
Estrin
• Eric Haseltine
• Michael
Hawley
• Alan
Kay
• Leonard
Kleinrock
• Douglas
Lenat
• Robert
Lucky
• Nicholas
Negroponte
• David
Reed |
 |
The "father of minicomputers," including the VAX computing environment, Mr. Gordon Bell served as the vice president of research and development at Digital Equipment Corporation. Mr. Bell’s current work as principal researcher at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Laboratory includes scalable computing, telepresence, and cyberizing everything personal with his MyLifeBits project. Over the past 25 years, Gordon has invested in more than 100 startups; he also authored High Tech Ventures. Gordon established the computing directorate at the National Science Foundation, and led the cross-agency plan for the Internet. He is a founder and fellow of the Computer History Museum; a fellow of the ACM and the IEEE; a member of the National Academies of Engineering and Science, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences; and a visiting professor at the Queensland University of Technology. Gordon’s awards include the 1991 National Medal of Technology. |
