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Gene Amdahl at the Mountain View Reception
Gene Amdahl (PhD '52) gave a humorous and insightful talk about his experiences at UW. Tasked with performing an extremely tedious calcuiation by hand, Dr. Amdahl was convinced there had to be a better way. To avoid having to perform a similar calculation again, he designed the Wisconsin Integrally Synchronized Computer (WISC) in 1950. WISC's construction began in 1951 and took four years to complete. The machine could perform up to 60 calculations per second, a speed limited by the 1024 (55 bit) word drum memory.

For the full story on the Mountain View reception, please see page three of the Fall 2008 Badger Bytes.

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