Editing Gordon Bell (section)

==Early life and education==
Gordon Bell was born in [[Kirksville, Missouri]]. He grew up helping with the family business, Bell Electric, repairing appliances and wiring homes.<ref name=CHMinterview>{{cite interview |last=Bell |first=Gordon |subject-link=Gordon Bell |interviewer=Gardner Hendrie |title=Oral History of Gordon Bell |url=http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102702036  |publisher=Computer History Museum  |location=San Francisco, California |date=June 23, 2005 |work=CHM Reference number: X3202.2006 |access-date=May 20, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101120224815/http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102702036 |archive-date= November 20, 2010}}</ref><ref name=Bio>{{cite web | title=Biography of Gordon Bell | url=http://gordonbell.azurewebsites.net/bio.htm | access-date=December 27, 2023 | archive-date=December 1, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201123925/http://research.microsoft.com/~GBell/bio.htm | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=OralHistory>{{cite web| title=An Oral History Interview with Gordon Bell - April 1995| url=https://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/bell.htm| access-date=December 27, 2023| archive-date=December 27, 2023| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231227031405/https://americanhistory.si.edu/comphist/bell.htm| url-status=live}}</ref>

Bell received a [[Bachelor of Science|BS]] (1956),{{Cn|date=May 2024}} and [[Master's degree|MS]] (1957) in [[electrical engineering]] from [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]].<ref name=":0" /> He then went to the [[New South Wales University of Technology]] (now UNSW) in Australia on a [[Fulbright Scholarship]] in 1957–58,<ref name=":0" /> where he taught classes on computer design, programmed one of the first computers to arrive in Australia (called UTECOM, an [[English Electric DEUCE]]), and published his first academic paper. Returning to the US, he worked in the MIT Speech Computation Laboratory under Professor [[Kenneth N. Stevens|Ken Stevens]], where he wrote the first [[analysis by synthesis]] program.{{cn|date=May 2024}}