Seymour Cray
Seymour Roger Cray Born (1925-09-28)September 28, 1925 Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, US Died October 5, 1996(1996-10-05) (aged 71) Colorado Springs, Colorado, US Fields Applied mathematician, computer scientist, and electrical engineer Institutions Engineering Research Associates Control Data Corporation Cray Research Cray Computer Corporation SRC Computers Alma mater University of Minnesota Known for Supercomputers Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 – October 5, 1996 ) 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 built 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."