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I lived in Colorado Springs in the 90s when Seymour Cray had his new company there. It always baffled me how negative the press coverage of his company and the
by sverige 7y ago
I lived in Colorado Springs in the 90s when Seymour Cray had his new company there. It always baffled me how negative the press coverage of his company and the Cray-4 was. I was rooting for him to make a practical gallium arsenide chip.
I think he was greatly underrated and underappreciated by the larger culture. The man was an inventive genius, maybe even on the order of an Edison. Perhaps he was not as broad in his range of inventions as Edison, but his approach to building supercomputers probably included inventions and innovations in many areas.
I still usually think of him whenever I pass the on ramp on I-25 where he was killed. They have since revised that interchange to make it safer, too late for Mr. Cray, unfortunately.
- protomyth 7y agoDrunk drivers are selfish scum, and Cray was taken from us by one such scum. I think he had another act in him, but he definitely didn't leave much of a video library of appearances. One of the great thrills I have is a picture of me standing in the center of a Cray 2 at LLNL. It was super fun to program that summer too. He was a hero.
- Aloha 7y agoI'm not sure we will ever see another Edison like figure
- rurban 7y agoYou cannot compare those two. Edison rarely invented anything by himself personally, he had a team of inventors and bought many inventions. Cray did it all by himself, and had a marketing problem. http://factmyth.com/factoids/edison-never-invented-anything/ http://factmyth.com/factoids/edison-never-invented-anything/