Advisory board
• John
Perry Barlow
• Gordon
Bell
• Maria Bezaitis
• Peter
Cochrane
• Eric Haseltine
• Mike
Hawley
• Alan
Kay
• Len
Kleinrock
• Doug
Lenat
• Bob
Lucky
• Nicholas
Negroponte
• David
Reed |
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The "father of minicomputers," including the VAX computing environment, Mr. Gordon Bell once served as the vice president of research and development at Digital Equipment Corporation. Over the past 20 years, Mr. Bell has invested in over 90 startups, and he authored High Tech Ventures. Gordon's current work as principal researcher at Microsoft includes scalable computing, telepresence, investigating personal media management, and cyberizing everything personal with his MyLifeBits project. He established the computing directorate at the National Science Foundation, and led the cross-agency plan for the Internet. Gordon is a founder of the Computer History Museum, a fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. His awards include the National Medal of Technology. |
