Awards & Winners

Gordon Bell

Date of Birth 19-August-1934
Place of Birth Kirksville
(Adair County, Missouri, Benton Township, United States of America)
Nationality
Also know as C. Gordon Bell
Profession Engineer, Researcher
C. Gordon Bell is an American electrical engineer and manager. An early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation 1960–1966, Bell designed several of their PDP machines and later became Vice President of Engineering 1972-1983, overseeing the development of the VAX. Bell's later career includes entrepreneur, investor, founding Assistant Director of NSF's Computing and Information Science and Engineering Directorate 1986-1987, and researcher at Microsoft Research, 1995–present.

Awards by Gordon Bell

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1991


National Medal of Technology and Innovation
(For his continuing intellectual and industrial achievements in the field of computer design; and for his leading role in establishing cost-effective, powerful computers which serve as a significant tool for engineering, science and industry.)