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Book review: The Future of Looking Back

...photo every minute and is used by dementia sufferers, as well as Gordon Bell, a Microsoft researcher who is digitising his entire life. From people... Read more

2 December, 2011
SteveLarryEinstein 1.3

SteveLarryEinstein 1.3

...Mary Quant, Grace Hopper, Naomi Campbell, Harriet Van Horne, T. J. Watson, Gordon Bell, Alan Turing, Benjamin Franklin, Aldous Huxley, JFK, J. K. Rowling, Karl... Read more

5 February, 2011
<endeca_term>Gordon Bell</endeca_term> on life through a digital lens

Gordon Bell on life through a digital lens

Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell talked to ZDNet UK on Tuesday about his project to document... Read more

13 February, 2009 by ZDNet UK
Microsoft researcher stores digital life

Microsoft researcher stores digital life

...thoughts and feelings, which makes the task far easier. Ten years ago, Gordon Bell, a principal researcher at Microsoft, set out to chronicle his life... Read more

12 February, 2009 by Colin Barker
<endeca_term>Gordon Bell</endeca_term> on life through a digital lens

Gordon Bell on life through a digital lens

Microsoft researcher Gordon Bell talked to ZDNet UK this week about his project to document... Read more

13 February, 2009

The British Library needs you

...digitally anyway? Speakers included Dame Lynne Brndley, chief executive of the library, Gordon Bell of Microsoft, who is famous for his work on the first... Read more

10 February, 2009

Smartphone laptop release announced

CES will see the unveiling of a laptop with built in smartphone, with a claimed maximum 12-hour battery life Read more

16 December, 2005 by Michael Kanellos

Would you put your life in Microsoft's hands?

...work documents or anything else which can be captured and recorded digitally. Gordon Bell, one of the developers of MyLifeBits, told New Scientist: "Imagine being... Read more

21 November, 2002 by Will Sturgeon

Transmeta's low power finds place in supercomputers

...processor. Present were Linus Torvalds, progenitor of the Linux operating system, and Gordon Bell, inventor of the minicomputer. The supercomputer will be used for big... Read more

20 May, 2002 by Rupert Goodwins

For 2001, futurists are playing coy

...to evade detection and wreak extensive damage. In a virtual presentation by Gordon Bell on the Web, the chairman of University Video Communications and 23... Read more

2 January, 2001 by Rachel Konrad

Would you put your life in Microsoft's hands?

...work documents or anything else which can be captured and recorded digitally. Gordon Bell, one of the developers of MyLifeBits, told New Scientist: "Imagine being... Read more

21 November, 2002 by Will Sturgeon

Linus launches compact supercomputer

Meet Green Destiny... Linus Torvalds and Gordon Bell, the inventor of the minicomputer, have unveiled a compact supercomputer. The... Read more

20 May, 2002 by Pia Heikkila

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