Get the latest tech news

Gordon Bell, an Architect of Our Digital Age, Dies At Age 89


An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Computer pioneer Gordon Bell, who as an early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) played a key role in the development of several influential minicomputer systems and also co-founded the first major computer museum, passed away on Fr...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Computer pioneer Gordon Bell, who as an early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation(DEC) played a key role in the development of several influential minicomputer systems and also co-founded the first major computer museum, passed away on Friday, according to Bell Labs veteran John Mashey. Bell also mentored at Microsoft in 1995, where he "studied telepresence technologies and served as the subject of the MyLifeBits life-logging project," reports Ars. "The initiative aimed to realize Vannevar Bush's vision of a system that could store all the documents, photos, and audio a person experienced in their lifetime."

Get the Android app

Or read this on Slashdot

Read more on:

Photo of digital age

digital age

Photo of Gordon Bell

Gordon Bell

Photo of architect

architect

Related news:

News photo

Gordon Bell has died

News photo

Journalism in the Digital Age

News photo

Landline Users Remain Proudly ‘Old-Fashioned’ in the Digital Age