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Gene Amdahl
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American physicist (1922-2015)
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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Flandreau
- Place of death
- Palo Alto
- Occupation
- businessperson
- Educated at
- University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Employer
- IBM
- Notable work
- Amdahl's law
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Sciences
- Doctoral advisor
- Robert G. Sachs
- Field of work
- mathematics
- Image
- Amdahl march 13 2008.jpg
- Residence
- South Dakota
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- date of birth
- 1922-11-16
- Commons category
- Gene Amdahl
- date of death
- 2015-11-10
- member of
- National Academy of Engineering
- manner of death
- natural causes
- archives at
- Computer History Museum
- name in native language
- Gene Amdahl
- cause of death
- pneumonia
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- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Childhood and education
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