Gordon Bell

About Gordon Bell

I\'ve long evangelized scalable, distributed systems starting with my interest in multiprocessors (mP) beginning in 1965 with the design of Digital\'s PDP-6, PDP-10\'s antecedent, one of the first mPs and the first timesharing computer. I continue this interest with various talks about trends including the future of computing, especially supercomputing, clustered personal computing, and cloud computing. As Digital\'s VP of R&D, I was responsible for the VAX Computing Environment. In 1987, I led the cross-agency group as head of NSF\'s Computing Directorate that made \"the plan\" for the National Research and Education Network (NREN) aka the Internet. When joining Microsoft in 1995, I focused on the use of computers and the necessity of telepresence: being there without really being there.\"There\" can be a different place, right now, or a compressed and different time (a presentation or recording of an earlier event). In this project was extended to include multimedia in the home.Since I\'ve put all of my atom- and electron-based bits in local Cyberspace defining the practice of Lifelogging. Initially this was a project at Microsoft called MyLifeBits. It included everything accumulated, written, photographed, presented, and owned (e.g. CDs). After many articles (The New Yorker, Scientific American, etc.), I and my colleague, Jim Gemmell, wrote a book entitled *Total Recall* published in 2009 by Dutton (The Penguin Group).\"Your Life, Uploaded: The Digital Way to Better Memory, Health, and Productivity\" is the paperback version published September 2010. It is available in Dutch, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Portuguese. Specialties: Computing, Lifelogging, high-tech startups, computing history

Experience

1. Researcher Emeritus (Ret)

   Microsoft

   Jan 2015 — Present

   Published *Total Recall* aka \"Your Life Uploaded\" with fellow researcher Jim Gemmell on recalling anything, anywhere and for all time. Get it at Amazon.com or in your local bookstore.

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  SB, Electrical Engineering

  1952 — 1956

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  SM, Electrical Engineering

  1956 — 1957

• Carnegie Mellon University

  Honorary Doctor of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering

  2010 — 2010

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  Honorary D. Engineering, Engineering

  1993 — 1993

Skills

• Mobile Devices
• Lifelogging
• Big Data
• IT Strategy
• Start-Ups
• Software Development
• Distributed Systems
• Saas
• Research
• Business Development
• Strategy
• Mentoring
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Networking
• Cloud Computing
• R&D
• High Performance Computing
• Analytics
• Business Strategy
• Algorithms
• Mobile Applications
• Computer Science
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Information Retrieval
• Teaching
• Entrepreneurship
• Product Development
• Computing History
• Program Management
• System Architecture
• Software Design
• Strategic Partnerships
• Strategic Planning
• Programming