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Advisory Committee
Dr. Gene Amdahl is the founding member of the PSI Advisory Committee. He brings over 50 years of expert advice and
experience from his ground breaking career in the computer industry. After receiving his M.S. and Ph.D in Theoretical
Physics from the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Amdahl was hired by IBM to head the design and development of the IBM 704.
Dr. Amdahl's leadership led to assignments in the design of the IBM 709 and IBM 7030. A few years later, Dr. Amdahl was
selected to manage the architecture for the IBM System 360 family of computers. In 1965, Dr. Amdahl was named an IBM
Fellow and served as Director of IBM's Advanced Computing Systems Laboratory.
Dr. Amdahl is best known for founding Amdahl Corporation in 1970, for it became one of IBM's principal competitors and
the first successful IBM compatible manufacturer. Dr. Amdahl retired from the company in 1980. He then went on to co-found
Trilogy Systems Corporation and merged into Elxsi in 1985. In 1987, he founded Andor International, Ltd. to continue
innovations in unique IBM-compatible products to improve the performance and the protection of programs and data.
Dr. Amdahl has more than 30 patents in the computer field. Dr. Amdahl has a B.S. in Engineerings Physics from South
Dakota University and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Wisconsin.
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 Dr. Gene Amdahl
"It is exciting to me, personally, to see the efforts begun at Amdahl
Corporation nearly 35 years ago to deliver a meaningful choice to the
mainframe marketplace being continued by PSI. PSI's unique ability to
provide both a compatible and open systems environment within the same
system is a demonstration of how competition leads to the development of
innovative solutions for consumers of information technology. I am most
pleased to serve as the founding member of PSI's Advisory Committee."
Dr. Gene Amdahl
Founder Amdahl,
September 1970
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