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Seymour Cray Obituary by John Markoff (1996)
- sverige 10y agoMr. Cray was admirable for his tenacity and single-mindedness. I especially liked his disdain for committees and corporate governance. He knew what he wanted to do, and it didn't involve sitting in silly meetings about nonessential stuff. We owe a lot to his designs. And they were his designs, not some committee's. I lived in Colorado Springs when Mr. Cray died so tragically. Every time I go past exit 150 (Academy Blvd.) on I-25, I think to myself, this is the Seymour Cray Memorial Interchange. It has been redesigned from the old-fashioned cloverleaf into a newer design where off- and on-ramp traffic don't have to merge in an eighth of a mile.
- ScottBurson 10y ago"He knew every transistor and every wire in his computers." -- Danny Hillis I recall hearing a story years ago about one of his machines, perhaps a 7600. It seems a technician had been called to service the machine, and in the process, noticed a wire that was quite a bit longer than the distance between the two points it connected. The technician replaced the wire with one cut to length... and the machine stopped working. Cray was using the speed-of-light delay to time some signal.
- davidf18 10y agoThis is the Watson "janitor" letter: http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/supercomputers/10/33/62 http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/supercomputers/10/... Here is a talk of his: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtOA1vuoDgQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtOA1vuoDgQ Bill Norris mentioned was the CEO of CDC.
- chmaynard 10y agoI wonder if the University of Wisconsin knows that their website is being used to post an obituary that is probably protected by copyright? (Markoff writes for The New York Times.) Just asking.
- greenyoda 10y agoSince it's being used for non-profit, educational purposes, this might fall under "fair use".