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 |
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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, he has invested in over 90 startups and authored High
Tech Ventures. Mr. Bell's current work as principal
researcher at Microsoft's eScience Research Group includes
scalable computing, telepresence, investigating personal media
management,
and cyberizing everything personal with his MyLifeBits project.
Gordon established the computing directorate at the National Science
Foundation, and led the cross-agency plan for the Internet. He
is a founder of the Computer History Museum, a fellow of the ACM
and the IEEE, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and
the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and a visiting professor
at the Macquarie Institute for Innovation. His awards include the
National Medal of Technology and the Eta Kappa Nu Vladimir Karapetoff
Award for lifetime accomplishment. |
