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Gene Amdahl

Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist, physicist, and engineer, founded the Amdahl Corporation (born 1922)

Life at a glance

Died: 2015 · November 10

Their story

Who they were

Gene Myron Amdahl was an American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur, 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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Gene Amdahl appears on our November 10 calendar for 2015 as a death entry.

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November 10 2015.

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