Seymour Cray
Seymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer, computer scientist, mathematician, 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 S.
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Background
- Born in
- Chippewa Falls
- Educated at
- University of MinnesotaChippewa Falls High School
- Awards
- 🏆 National Inventors Hall of Fame🏆 Howard N. Potts Medal🏆 Eckert–Mauchly Award🏆 W. Wallace McDowell Award🏆 IEEE Ernst Weber Engineering Leadership Recognition
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Trending topics shown first"I talk to myself through the computer. I ask myself questions, leave things to be looked at again, things that you would do with a notepad. It turns out today that it’s much better today to do with a …"
"The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late."
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1925
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Birth1996
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