Gene Amdahl

Also known as Gene Myron Amdahl, Gene M. Amdahl

American physicist (1922-2015)

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Norway
Active from: 1942-09-06

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Astrognosia & Æsop2015

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5 total works indexed

A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,410x
The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis
· 1988 · cited 15,767x
CheckM: assessing the quality of microbial genomes recovered from isolates, single cells, and metagenomes
· 2015 · cited 11,563x
The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,178x
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 9,765x

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Quotes

“The term architecture is used here to describe the attributes of a system as seen by the programmer, i.e., the conceptual structure and functional behavior, as distinct from the organization of the data flow and controls, the logical design, and the physical implementation. i. Additional details concerning the architecture,”
“We tend to think that the phenomenon of engineers and scientists being at the top of a company is something that started with Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak or Gary Kildall. But this just isn’t the case. Even back in the days when IBM was the single most important computer company, it was possible for one of its engineers to escape and make an impact that disturbed even Big Blue.”
“The first characteristic of interest is the fraction of the computational load which is associated with data management housekeeping. This fraction has been very nearly constant for about ten years, and accounts for 40% of the executed instructions in production runs.”

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Key facts

Born: ( 1922-11-16 ) November 16, 1922, Flandreau, South Dakota , U.S.
Died: November 10, 2015 (2015-11-10) (aged 92), Palo Alto, California , U.S.
Alma mater: South Dakota State University ( BS , 1948), University of Wisconsin ( MS ; PhD , 1952)
Known for: Founding Amdahl Corporation ; formulating Amdahl's law ; IBM 360, 704
Spouse: Marian Delaine Quissell
Children: Andrea Leigh Amdahl Beth Delaine Amdahl Carlton Gene Amdahl
Awards: National Academy of Engineering (1967), Computer History Museum Fellow (1998)
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

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date of birth: 1922-11-16
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date of death: 2015-11-10
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Gene Myron Amdahl (November 16, 1922 – November 10, 2015) 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.

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