Gwen Bell
Computer Scientist
1934 –
Who is Gwen Bell?
Gwen Bell was the first president of The Computer Museum in Boston, which she co-founded with her husband Gordon Bell.
Career:
⁕Fulbright Scholar at the Sydney University School of Architecture, Design, and Planning
⁕associate professor of urban affairs at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
⁕visiting associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
⁕editor of the monthly periodical Ekistics: The Problems and Science of Human Settlements of Ekistics in Athens, Greece
⁕consultant to the United Nations for Indonesia, The Philippines and Brazil
⁕social science editor for Pergamon Press
⁕co-founder and first president of the The Computer Museum. The story of the early history of the computer museums as The Digital Computer Museum at Digital Equipment Corp. in Maynard MA, The Computer Museum Marlboro MA, moving to Boston prior to its move to Silicon Valley as The Computer Museum History Center and becoming the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA is given in Gordon Bell's Microsoft Technical Report MSR-TR-2011-44, Out of a Closet: The Early Years of the Computer Museums.
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- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Clark University
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on July 23, 2013
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