Mark Kryder

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Mark Kryder (b. October 7, 1943 in Portland, Oregon) was Seagate Corp.'s senior vice president of research and chief technology officer.^[1] He is noted for his research work in the development of magnetic and magneto-optic data storage technology.^{[citation needed]}

In addition to his career at Seagate, Kryder is the Stephen J. Jatras university professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and a founding director of the Magnetics Technology Center (now the CMU Data Storage Systems Center) there; he was also a member of the research staff at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.^{[citation needed]}

Kryder holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Physics from the California Institute of Technology.^[1] He has authored over 350 publications and holds twenty-three patents.^[1] Kryder has chaired the Singapore based Data Storage Institute's (DSI) Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) since 2004.^{[citation needed]} He has been serving as a member of the Institute's scientific advisory board since its inception in 1992^{[citation needed]}.

A Scientific American article, drawing from Moore's law, says that magnetic disk areal storage density doubles annually, a phenomenon that had come to be known as Kryder's Law.^[2] This held true over the decade 1995-2005^{[citation needed]}. In 2005, commodity drive density of 110 gigabit/in² or 170 megabit/mm² had been reached. This does not extrapolate all the way back to the initial 2 kilobit/in² drives introduced in 1956, as growth rates increased with the advent of institutionalized strategic technology re-investment such as the MTC.

[edit] Awards and honors

Mark H. Kryder is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).^[1] He was Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Magnetics Society, and has been awarded the IEEE Magnetics Society Achievement Award, the IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award and the IEEE Millennium Award.^[3] Kryder received the Pingat Bakti Masyarakat^[4] from Singapore in their 2007 National Day Awards.

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "2007 George E. Pake Prize Recipient". American Physical Society. 2007. http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?name=Mark%20Kryder&year=2007. 
2. ^ Walter, Chip (July 2005). "Kryder's Law". Scientific American. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=kryders-law. 
3. ^ Nyenhuis, John; Richard Dee (eds) (August 2000). "Kryder Receives IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Award". IEEE Magnetics Society Newsletter. http://www.ieeemagnetics.org/Newsletter/August00/index.html. 
4. ^ "2007 Public Service Medal". Pingat Bakti Masyarakat (PMB). Archived from the original on 2008-02-07. http://web.archive.org/web/20080207173113/http://www.pmo.gov.sg/PMOHQ/NDA/2007/ThePublicServiceMedal/Page4.htm. 

[edit] External links

• "Kryder's Law". MattsComputerTrends.com. http://www.mattscomputertrends.com/Kryder's.html. 
• "Kryder's Law @ Scientific American". Seagate. http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=Kryders_Law_&vgnextoid=6ad295e4bba0e010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD. 
• Kozierok, Charles M. (2001-04-17). "A Brief History of the Hard Disk Drive". http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/hist-c.html.