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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...
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    improved part is actually used". It is named after computer scientist Gene Amdahl, and was presented at the American Federation of Information Processing...
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    supercomputers competing with those from Cray Research. Founded in 1970 by Gene Amdahl, a former IBM computer engineer best known as chief architect of System/360...
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  • founded by Gene Amdahl, his son Carl Amdahl and Clifford Madden. Flush with the success of his previous company, Amdahl Corporation, Gene Amdahl was able...
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  • judge from Minnesota Gene Amdahl (1922–2015), formulator of Amdahl's law of parallel computing and founder of Amdahl Corporation Amdahl Corporation, a manufacturer...
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  • in 1979 Gene Amdahl, B.S. Engineering & Physics, 1948, developed the IBM 360 computer and later the IBM 704, IBM 709 computers, and Amdahl's Law Aelred...
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    up the value associated with a given key. It was invented in 1954 by Gene Amdahl, Elaine M. McGraw, and Arthur Samuel and first analyzed in 1963 by Donald...
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    signed. At IBM, a small team at Poughkeepsie including John Griffith and Gene Amdahl worked on the design proposal. Just after they finished and were about...
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    history's most successful computers. System/360's chief architect was Gene Amdahl, and the project was managed by Fred Brooks, responsible to Chairman...
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    mainframe computer introduced by IBM in 1954. Designed by John Backus and Gene Amdahl, it was the first mass-produced computer with hardware for floating-point...
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  • 1970 but this was short-lived as they were unable to raise capital. Gene Amdahl took the opportunity to start his own company, building IBM-compatible...
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    of the IBM System/360 line of computers, together with Fred Brooks, Gene Amdahl, and others. Born in The Hague, Netherlands, Blaauw received his BA from...
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    author, best known for Little House on the Prairie; lived in De Smet Gene Amdahl (1922–2015), chief architect of IBM mainframe computer; born in Flandreau...
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    key design for the IEEE floating-point unit. Elxsi was bought out by Gene Amdahl in 1985 with money that was leftover from the Trilogy venture. Venture...
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    the first digital computer in the state. Pioneering computer designer Gene Amdahl drafted the WISC's design as his PhD thesis. The computer was built over...
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    Archives) Oral history interview with Gene Amdahl Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Amdahl discusses his role in the design...
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  • 16–22 September 1979. Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-11157-3. "UW Alum Dr. Gene Amdahl, Pioneer of Mainframe Computing, Dies at 92". Department of Physics....
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  • market where they were losing ground, but neither released any products. Gene Amdahl also attempted to develop WSI as a method of making a supercomputer,...
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  • LARC - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1961–1963 - IBM 7030 Stretch IBM Gene Amdahl May 1961 9 US$7,780,000 (equivalent to $70,550,000 in 2021) - 70,000...
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    D. Linh, building on Luhn's memorandum.: 547  Around the same time, Gene Amdahl, Elaine M. McGraw, Nathaniel Rochester, and Arthur Samuel of IBM Research...
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  • Languages Oral history interview with Gene Amdahl Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Amdahl discusses his role in the design...
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  • one of the first applications of linked lists. Subsequently, in 1954, Gene Amdahl, Elaine M. McGraw, Nathaniel Rochester, and Arthur Samuel of IBM Research...
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  • separately. Gene Amdahl saw an opportunity to sell compatible machines without software; the customer could purchase a machine from Amdahl and the operating...
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  • Henrik Abel Ariadne's thread Computer science Ariadne Amdahl's law Computer science Gene Amdahl Ampère's circuital law Physics André-Marie Ampère Archie's...
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    invented by Gene Amdahl of IBM, who in 1967 published what has come to be regarded as the seminal paper on parallel processing: Amdahl's Law. The history...
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  • mainframe computers. Amdahl Corporation, founded in 1970 by IBM Fellow, chief architect of the IBM System/360 range and entrepreneur, Gene Amdahl, was an information...
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    1997: Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, John Backus, Steve Wozniak 1998: Gene Amdahl, Donald Knuth, Gordon Moore 1999: Alan Kay, John McCarthy, Konrad Zuse...
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  • telecommunications company Trilogy Systems, a failed startup company founded by Gene Amdahl Viva (network operator), a Dominican mobile network operator formerly...
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    the common thread that led to Fujitsu's later association with ICL and Gene Amdahl. In 1986, Fujitsu and The Queen's University of Belfast business incubation...
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  • current technology-related meaning by Gene Amdahl in 1975, after he left IBM to found his own company, Amdahl Corp. FUD is the fear, uncertainty and...
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