Seymour Cray
Electrical engineer, Inventor
1925 – 1996
Who was Seymour Cray?
Seymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research which would build many of these machines. Called "the father of supercomputing," Cray has been credited with creating the supercomputer industry. Joel Birnbaum, then chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard, said of him: "It seems impossible to exaggerate the effect he had on the industry; many of the things that high performance computers now do routinely were at the farthest edge of credibility when Seymour envisioned them."
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- Born
- Sep 28, 1925
Chippewa Falls - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Minnesota
- Chippewa Falls High School
- Employment
- Engineering Research Associates
- Lived in
- Wisconsin
- Died
- Oct 5, 1996
Colorado Springs
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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