Gordon Bell
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Gordon Bell is an American computer engineer and pioneer in computer architecture, best known for his influential work at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and contributions to minicomputer and bus design.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gordon Bell canonical | 6 |
Statements (66)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer architect
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computer engineer ⓘ human ⓘ inventor ⓘ technology pioneer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
ACM-IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award
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surface form:
ACM-IEEE Eckert–Mauchly Award
Computer History Museum Fellow Award ⓘ IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award ⓘ
surface form:
IEEE Computer Pioneer Award
IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award ⓘ IEEE John von Neumann Medal ⓘ Japan Prize ⓘ National Medal of Technology and Innovation ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Swarthmore College ⓘ |
| employer |
CMU
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surface form:
Carnegie Mellon University
Digital Equipment Corporation ⓘ Microsoft ⓘ National Science Foundation ⓘ |
| familyName | Bell ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
bus design
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computer architecture ⓘ high-performance computing ⓘ minicomputers ⓘ |
| founded | Bell-Mason Group ⓘ |
| givenName | Gordon ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | “father of the minicomputer” ⓘ |
| influenced |
high-performance computing design
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microcomputer architecture ⓘ minicomputer industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Bell’s Law of Computer Classes
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design of computer buses ⓘ design of minicomputers at DEC ⓘ development of PDP series computers ⓘ development of VAX computers ⓘ pioneering work in computer architecture ⓘ |
| memberOf |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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Association for Computing Machinery ⓘ National Academy of Engineering ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bell’s Law of Computer Classes
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Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing ⓘ Computer Structures: Readings and Examples ⓘ High-Tech Ventures ⓘ MyLifeBits project ⓘ PDP-11 ⓘ PDP-4 ⓘ PDP-5 ⓘ PDP-6 ⓘ PDP-7 ⓘ PDP-8 ⓘ Q-bus ⓘ UNIBUS ⓘ VAX ⓘ
surface form:
VAX architecture
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| occupation |
computer engineer
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computer scientist ⓘ electrical engineer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
assistant director for computing at National Science Foundation
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founding member of Computer History Museum board ⓘ senior researcher at Microsoft Research ⓘ vice president of engineering at Digital Equipment Corporation ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workedOn |
MyLifeBits project
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surface form:
MyLifeBits lifelogging project
PDP series minicomputers ⓘ Q-bus design ⓘ UNIBUS design ⓘ VAX ⓘ
surface form:
VAX-11/780
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How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Gordon Bell Description of subject: Gordon Bell is an American computer engineer and pioneer in computer architecture, best known for his influential work at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and contributions to minicomputer and bus design.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.