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GERRIT A. BLAAUW
Pages 34-37

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... He received his bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Delft University of Technology just after the war and then got a BS in electrical entineering at Lafayette College before going on to study computer engineering at Harvard (MS, 1949; PhD, 1952) , with Aiken as his advisor.
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... This methodical design structure works for designs in many media. For computers, the architecture phase culminates in the programming manual, the implementation phase produces the complete logical equations, and realization makes the actual running machine.
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... This work embodied not only the many decisions debated by the substantial architectural team but countless micro­decisions. Blaauw ensured the consistency that gives a computer architecture conceptual integrity.
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