Mark Kryder

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Mark Kryder (b. Oct 7, 1943 in Portland, Oregon) was a Seagate Corp.'s senior vice president of research and chief technology officer. He is noted for his research work in the development of magnetic and magneto-optic data storage technology.

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.

Kryder holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Physics from the California Institute of Technology. He has authored over 300 publications and holds 21 patents. Kryder has chaired the Singapore based Data Storage Institute's (DSI) Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) since 2004. He has been serving as a member of the Institute's scientific advisory board since its inception in 1992.

A Scientific American article, drawing from Moore's law, says that magnetic disk areal storage density doubles annually ("Kryder's Law"). This held true over the decade 1995-2005. 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.

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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). 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. Kryder received the Pingat Bakti Masyarakat[1] by Singapore in their 2007 National Day Awards.

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  1. ^ Public Service Medal Pingat Bakti Masyarakat (PMB)