Considered the
father of modern
super computers Seymour Cray was born on 10/26/1925 in
Chippewa Falls,
Wisconson. Cray graduated from the
University of Minnesota and worked on the pioneering
UNIVAC I computer before co-founding
Control Data Corporation. There he designed several
mainframes noted for their very powerful
processing ability.
In 1972 Cray founded Cray Research with the goal of producing the fastest computers ever created. A goal which he accomplished with the release of the Cray-1 in 1976. Cray continued to churn out ever more powerful computers until his death in a car accident in 1996.