Gordon Bell has made outstanding technical contributions to the developement of computer architecture and high-performance computing, as well as research and development leadership in the minicomputer industry. As the founding Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation's Computing Directorate - CISE, he led the cross-agency panel for the National Research and Education Network (NREN) that planned the internet. He has continued to make contributions to information technology research and commercialisation in Australia following his Fullbright scholarship in 1957 and 1958. Beginning in 2000, his MyLifeBits project at Microsoft Research was early work which helped found the field of Capture, Archival & Retrieval of Personal Experiences.

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