Gerrit Blaauw

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Gerrit Blaauw

Gerrit Anne "Gerry" Blaauw (July 17, 1924 – March 21, 2018)

System/360 line of computers, together with Fred Brooks, Gene Amdahl, and others.[2]

Biography

Born in The Hague, Netherlands, Blaauw received his BA from the

Howard Aiken, inventor of the early Mark I computer. At Harvard, he worked on design of the Mark III and Mark IV computers. Blaauw met Fred Brooks while he was working for IBM and visited Harvard, where Fred Brooks was then a graduate student.[2]

After graduation in 1952, Blaauw returned to the Netherlands where he worked at the

Poughkeepsie
labs where he worked with Brooks on a number of projects:

Blaauw also designed a revolutionary address translation system, the "Blaauw Box", which was removed from the original

Atlas Computer was a seminal platform for paging research, but suffered from well-studied performance issues such as thrashing.[7] Virtual memory address translation capabilities similar to those on the S/360-67 were subsequently included in all models of the IBM System/370
computer line that followed.

After leaving IBM, Blaauw became a computer science professor in the Netherlands. He retired in 1989 as professor emeritus with

Universiteit Twente.[2] In 1982 he was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[8] In 1997 he co-authored Computer Architecture: Concepts and Evolution with Brooks.[9]

Blaauw died in Utrecht.

Blaauw was a devout Christian who gave particular attention, especially after retirement, to the relationship of science and faith, a topic he explored in a booklet available in English, Dutch and Spanish.

Selected publications

Selected articles

  • Brooks, Frederick P., Gerrit A. Blaauw, and Wilfried Buchholz. "Processing data in bits and pieces." IRE Transactions on Electronic Computers 2 (1959): 118-124.
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  • Blaauw, Gerrit A., and Frederick P. Brooks Jr. "The structure of SYSTEM/360: Part I—Outline of the logical structure." IBM Systems Journal 3.2 (1964): 119-135.

Patents

  • Amdahl, Gene M., et al. "Data processing system." U.S. Patent No. 3,400,371. 3 Sep. 1968.

References

  1. ^ "Prof. dr. Gerrit Anne Blaauw ✝ 21-03-2018 overlijdensbericht en condoleances". Mensenlinq (in Dutch). Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  2. ^ a b c "Gerrit Blaauw" Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine in Unsung Heroes in Dutch Computing History, a website created for the IEEE Computer Society's Web Programming Competition (CHC61), 2007
  3. ^ Pugh, op. cit., p. 740 note 197
  4. ^ The IBM 360/67 and CP/CMS, Tom Van Vleck, 1995, 1997, 2005, 2009
  5. ^ "Program and Addressing Structure in a Time-Sharing Environment", B. W. Arden, B. A. Galler, T. C. O'Brien, F. H. Westervelt, Journal of the ACM, v.13 n.1, p.1-16, Jan. 1966
  6. ^ IBM System/360 Model 67 Functional Characteristics (PDF). Third Edition. IBM. February 1972. GA27-2719-2.
  7. ^ L.W. Comeau, "CP-40, the Origin of VM/370," Proceedings of SEAS AM82 (September 1982) p. 40 – Atlas "didn't work"
  8. ^ "Gerrit Blauw". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  9. ISBN 978-0-201-10557-5

Further reading

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