Seymour Cray

Seymour Cray

A computer-design engineer at Engineering Research Associates (ERA), which became Univac, until 1957. Chief engineer of CDC (ControlData) until 1972. Founder of CrayResearch, where he designed supercomputers until 1989. Designer of the Univac/ERA 1103, the CDC 1604, 6600, 7600, the Cray-1, Cray-2.

For much greater detail, please see:

• Biography on the History of Computing site (http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Cray.Pepper.html), provided courtesy of the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech.
• Transcript of a 1995 interview (http://americanhistory.si.edu/csr/comphist/cray.htm) conducted by the National Museum Of American History of the Smithsonian Institution.

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