Amdahl, Eugene Myron(Gene Myron Amdahl)

1948 - Received his B.S. in Engineering Physics from South Dakota State University.

1952 - Earned his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Wisconsin.

1970 - Dr. Amdahl left IBM Corporation to create more innovative mainframe computers. 

1979 - He became Amdahl's Chairman Emeritus and a consultant to the company. He was the founder and eponym of Amdahl Corporation.

1980 - He retired from Amdahl in August. 

        - Co-founded Trilogy Systems Corporation to produce fault tolerant wafer-scale chips and a high-performance CPU.

1987 - Andor International, Ltd. was founded by Dr. Amdahl in 1987 to continue innovations in technology. 

1994 - Dr. Amdahl co-founded Commercial Data Services, Inc. (CDS). CDS is a development stage company with plans to design a computer with the power and functionality of traditional mainframe at a comparable size and serviceability of smaller personal computers and network servers.