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'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. Mashey
announced Bell's passing in a social media post on Tuesday morning.
"I am very sad to report [the] death May 17 at age 89 of Gordon Bell, famous
computer pioneer, a founder of Computer Museum in Boston, and a force behind
the @ComputerHistory here in Silicon Valley, and good friend since the 1980s,"
wrote Mashey in his announcement. "He succumbed to aspiration pneumonia in
Coronado, CA."
Bell was a pivotal figure in the history of computing and a notable champion of
tech history, having founded Boston's Computer Museum in 1979, which later
became the heart of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, with his wife
Gwen Bell. He was also the namesake of the ACM's prestigious Gordon Bell Prize,
created to spur innovations in parallel processing.'
Via Diane A.
RIP,
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