Gerrit Blaauw

Gerrit Anne "Gerry" Blaauw (born 17 July 1924) is 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.
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.
Blaauw was born in The Hague. He graduated from Delft University of Technology in 1946.