# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gordon-bell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:15:37.424Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gordon-bell"
name: "Gordon Bell"
slug: "gordon-bell"
description: "Chester Gordon Bell was an American electrical engineer and manager. An early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), from 1960 to 1966, Bell designed several of their PDP machines and later served as the company's Vice President of Engineering from 1972 to 1983, overseeing development of the VAX computer systems. Bell's later career included roles as an entrepreneur, investor, founding Assistant Director of NSF's Computing and Information Science and Engineering Directorate from 1986 to 1987, and researcher emeritus at Microsoft Research from 1995 to 2015."
tagline: "American computer engineer (1934–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gordon_Bell.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1934-08-19"
deathDate: "2024-05-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.655019541503821
  historical:           17.56897333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump