Gerrit Blaauw

Gerrit Anne "Gerry" Blaauw (17 July 1924 – 21 March 2018) was a Dutch computer scientist. He is known as one of the principal designers of the IBM System/360 line of computers, together with Fred Brooks, Gene Amdahl, and others."Gerrit Blaauw"  in Unsung Heroes in Dutch Computing History, a website created for the IEEE Computer Society's Web Programming Competition (CHC61), 2007

In 1982 he was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1997 he co-authored Computer Architecture: Concepts and Evolution with Brooks.Computer Architecture: Concepts and Evolution, Gerrit A. Blaauw and Frederick P. Brooks, Addison-Wesley Professional, 1264 pp., February 1997, 

Blaauw was born in The Hague. He graduated from Delft University of Technology in 1946.

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Other websites

 Gerrit Blaauw , unsung heroes in Dutch computing history.
 DIESREDE BLAAUW: BESCHRIJVEN EN BEGRIJPEN  26 November 1976 (in Dutch)

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Category:Dutch computer scientists
Category:People from The Hague