Gene Amdahl | |
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Born | |
Died | November 10, 2015 | (aged 92)
Nationality | American |
Citizenship | USA |
Alma mater | South Dakota State University (B.S., 1948) University of Wisconsin–Madison (M.S.; Ph.D., 1952) |
Known for | founding Amdahl Corporation; formulating Amdahl's law; IBM 360, 704 |
Awards | National Academy of Engineering (1967) Computer History Museum Fellow (1998) [1] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Entrepreneur Computer science |
Institutions | degrees in theoretical physics from the University of Wisconsin. |
Thesis | The Logical Design of an Intermediate Speed Digital Computer (1953) |
Doctoral advisor | Robert G. Sachs[2][3][4] |
Gene Myron Amdahl (November 16, 1922 – November 10, 2015) was an American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur. He was known for his work on mainframe computers at IBM alongside Fred Brooks and Gerrit Blaauw and later his own companies, especially Amdahl Corporation. He formulated Amdahl's law, which states a fundamental limitation of parallel computing.
In 1998, he was made a Fellow [5] of the Computer History Museum "for his fundamental work in computer architecture and design, project management, and leadership."
Amdahl died of pneumonia after suffering from Alzheimer's disease during the last years of his life in Palo Alto, California, aged 92.