Supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray is born
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28th September 1925 Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 – October 5, 1996) is born in Wisconsin, USA. Cray began his engineering career building cryptographic machinery for the U.S. government and went on to co-found Control Data Corporation (CDC) in the late 1950s. For over three decades, first with CDC then with his own companies, Cray consistently built the fastest computers in the world, leading the industry with innovative architectures and packaging and allowing the solution of hundreds of difficult scientific, engineering, and military problems. Cray died in an automobile accident in 1996. Related information: Image:
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