A giant. Senior architect and designer of most of the great Digital Equipment Corporation machines of the sixties, seventies, and eighties. Now affiliated with Microsoft.

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From his biography (http://research.microsoft.com/users/GBell/bio.htm):

Gordon Bell 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 (e.g. the PDP-6) 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.

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His interests include the present and future, not forgetting the past. He is one of the most InterestingFolks I have come across. 
* For much more information about Gordon, see his HomePage at:
*** http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/
* For a list of his accomplishments and projects, see:
*** http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/gbvita.htm
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