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Seymour Cray
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Applied mathematician, computer scientist, and electrical engineer (1925–1996)
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5 total works indexed
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,623x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,855x
- Global, regional, and national sepsis incidence and mortality, 1990–2017: analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study
· 2020 · cited 6,991x
- Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock: 2016
· 2017 · cited 5,008x
- Erlotinib in Previously Treated Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer
· 2005 · cited 4,447x
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Quotes
- “One of my guiding principles is don’t do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different if you can. The concept is that if you do it a little differently there is a greater potential for reward than if you the same thing that other people are doing. I think that this kind of goal for one’s work, having obviously the maximum risk, would have the maximum reward no matter what the field may be.”
- “I talk to myself through the computer. I ask myself questions, leave things to be looked at again, things that you would do with a notepad. It turns out today that it’s much better today to do with a personal computer rather than a notepad.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Seymour Roger Cray , ( 1925-09-28 ) September 28, 1925, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin , US
- Died
- October 5, 1996 (1996-10-05) (aged 71), Colorado Springs, Colorado , US
- Alma mater
- University of Minnesota
- Known for
- Supercomputers
- Spouse s
- Verene Voll (1947–1978; divorced), Geri M. Harrand
- Relatives
- Andrew Cray (grandson)
- Fields
- Applied mathematics , computer science , and electrical engineering
- Institutions
- Engineering Research Associates , Control Data Corporation , Cray Research , Cray Computer Corporation , SRC Computers
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Encyclopedic overview
Seymour Roger Cray (September 28, 1925 – October 5, 1996) was an American electrical engineer, computer scientist, mathematician, and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded Cray Research, which built many of these machines. Called "the father of supercomputing", Cray has been credited with creating the supercomputer industry. Joel S. Birnbaum, then chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard, said of him: "It seems impossible to exaggerate the effect he had on the industry; many of the things that high performance computers now do routinely were at the farthest edge of credibility when Seymour envisioned them." Larry Smarr, then director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois said that Cray is "the Thomas Edison of the supercomputing industry."
Early life
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