Gene Amdahl
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 9 years ago |
Date of birth | November 16,1922 |
Zodiac sign | Scorpio |
Born | Flandreau |
South Dakota | |
United States | |
Date of died | November 10,2015 |
Died | Palo Alto |
California | |
United States | |
Thesis | The Logical Design of an Intermediate Speed Digital Computer (1953) |
Founded | Amdahl Corporation |
Trilogy Systems | |
Nationality | American |
Current partner | Marian Quissell |
Academic advisor | Robert G. Sachs |
Awards | National Academy of Engineering ; Computer History Museum Fellow (1998) |
Education | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
South Dakota State University | |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1014940 |
Gene Amdahl Life story
Gene Myron Amdahl was an American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur, chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers at IBM and later his own companies, especially Amdahl Corporation. He formulated Amdahl's law, which states a fundamental limitation of parallel computing.