Seymour Cray

Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 – October 5, 1996Obituary - Seymour Cray, Father of supercomputing – ) was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect. He founded Cray Research. He was called "the father of supercomputing". He was known for creating the supercomputer business. 

Cray was critically hurt in a car accident caused near the Air Force Academy in Colorado. He died of his injuries on October 5, 1996 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, two weeks after the accident and one week after his 71st birthday.

References

Other websites

 Seymour Cray Oral History
 What's All This About Gallium Arsenide? — keynote lecture by Seymour Cray, recorded on November 15, 1988, at Supercomputing '88 in Orlando, FL, University Video Communications
 An Imaginary Tour of a Biological Computer (Why Computer Professionals and Molecular Biologists Should Start Collaborating): Remarks of Seymour Cray to the Shannon Center for Advanced Studies, University of Virginia, May 30, 1996

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