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Balthasar Reuter Aug 12, 2025

🌍🌐 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵’𝘀 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝘄𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗖𝗠 𝗚𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴. 🎉

https://destine.ecmwf.int/news/destines-climate-change-adaptation-digital-twin-shortlisted-for-the-acm-gordon-bell-prize-for-climate/

#HPC #GordonBell #SC #SC25 #ECMWF #DestinE #DestinationEarth

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Nov 5, 2024

#ORNL: Frontier Users’ #Exascale #Climate Emulator Nominated for #GordonBell #Climate Prize
A multi-institutional team of researchers led by #KAUST in Saudi Arabia, has been nominated for the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2024 Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling. The team developed an exascale climate emulator with radically enhanced resolution but without the computational expense and data storage requirements of state-of-the-art climate models.
https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/ornl-frontier-users-exascale-climate-emulator-nominated-for-gordon-bell-climate-prize/

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Digital Mark λ ☕️ 🕹 👽Sep 29, 2024

@bruces There was a fair amount of notice on fediverse, tho the #gordonbell hashtag only shows a few toots, there was a solid week or so of mentions. People tend to be bad about hashtagging…

ArsTechnica had a memorial: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/gordon-bell-an-architect-of-our-digital-age-dies-at-age-89/

Gordon Bell, an architect of our digital age, dies at age 89

Bell architected DEC's VAX minicomputers, championed computer history, mentored at Microsoft.

Ars Technica

Stephen Hoffman Jun 24, 2024

The No Output Division, a management frustration memo written some forty years ago by a senior VP at a then-huge-now-gone IT entity:

http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/DEC/dec.bell.no_output_division_C-I_TF;productivity_review.1982.102630376.pdf

“I believe 1/2 of these people could be let go from DEC today and our productivity would take a sharp rise.”

#retrocomputing #history #DigitalEquipmentCorporation #GordonBell

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David Mankins Jun 10, 2024

@cstross @munin

I think there’s a bit of context that makes Recall a bit easier to understand.

The recent death of Gordon Bell -- a computer pioneer who spent many of his last days at MS -- reminded me of his "lifelog" project. He wore a device that would photograph his surroundings periodically, and save it away in an archive. It took snapshots of his PC activity, as well. He abandoned it about a decade ago because it was a big clerical task.

Enter AI.

I can't help but suspect *that's* what they were thinking.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2121672/the-rebirth-of-lifelogging-and-the-death-of-gordon-bell.html

#recall #gordonbell

The rebirth of lifelogging and the death of Gordon Bell

The iPhone ended Gordon Bell’s lifelogging project. Now AI is bringing it back.

Computerworld

David Mankins Jun 5, 2024

A lot of the chatter about MS's Recall has had an element of "What were they thinking?"

The recent death of Gordon Bell -- a computer pioneer who spent many of his last days at MS -- reminded me of his "lifelog" project. He wore a device that would photograph his surroundings periodically, and save it away in an archive. It may have taken snapshots of his PC activity, as well.

I can't help but suspect *that's* what they were thinking.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2121672/the-rebirth-of-lifelogging-and-the-death-of-gordon-bell.html

#recall #gordonbell

The rebirth of lifelogging and the death of Gordon Bell

The iPhone ended Gordon Bell’s lifelogging project. Now AI is bringing it back.

Computerworld

Richard R Lee May 22, 2024

Rest in Peace old mate. C. Gordon Bell was a pioneer in Computer Scalability. He took the notion of #Clustering from its infancy to productization. All Computer Architects have stood on his shoulders over the past decades. #Scalability #Clusters #DEC.
An #AmericanTreasure in the #Engineering domain. #GordonBell.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/technology/c-gordon-bell-dead.html?smid=url-share

C. Gordon Bell, Creator of a Personal Computer Prototype, Dies at 89

It cost $18,000 when it was introduced in 1965, but it bridged the world between room-size mainframes and the modern desktop.

The New York Times

Soh Kam Yung May 21, 2024

RIP.

"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."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/gordon-bell-an-architect-of-our-digital-age-dies-at-age-89/

#GordonBell #Computers #ComputerHistory #VAX #DEC #PDP

Gordon Bell, an architect of our digital age, dies at age 89

Bell architected DEC's VAX minicomputers, championed computer history, mentored at Microsoft.

Ars Technica

Paul Guinnessy May 21, 2024

#Computer pioneer #GordonBell, 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. RIP. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/gordon-bell-an-architect-of-our-digital-age-dies-at-age-89/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Gordon Bell, an architect of our digital age, dies at age 89

Bell architected DEC's VAX minicomputers, championed computer history, mentored at Microsoft.

Ars Technica

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Nov 14, 2022

A finalist for the #GordonBell special prize for #highperformancecomputing-#COVID19 research has taught #largelanguagemodel (#LLM) a new lingo — #gene sequences — that can unlock insights in #genomics, epidemiology and #protein engineering. https://bit.ly/3E6RFUm

Gordon Bell Finalist Applies Large Language Models to Predict New COVID Variants

Nov. 14, 2022 — A finalist for the Gordon Bell special prize for high performance computing-based COVID-19 research has taught large language models (LLMs) a new lingo — gene sequences […]

HPCwire