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Gordon Bell is a computer industry consultant at large and senior researcher at Microsoft, having spent 23 years at Digital Equipment Corporation as Vice President of R&D, where he was responsible for the first mini- and time-sharing computers and led the development of DEC's VAX. Bell has been involved in the design of many products at Digital and starting a score of companies. As the first, head of NSF's Computing Directorate, he led the National Research Network panel that became the NII/GII, and was an author of the High Performance Computer and Communications Initiative. Bell is the author of books and papers on computing and entrepreneurial startup companies. He is a member of various professional organizations, including the National Academy of Engineering, IEEE, ACM, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the 1991 National Medal of Technology for his contributions to computing. He is a founder of the Computer Museum.
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