Widely acknowledged as the "Father of the Supercomputer"

Credited with developing the first fully transistorized supercomputer in 1958

A founding employee of Control Data Corporation in 1957; directed its engineering department 1957 to 1965

Invented CRAY-1 vector register technology, and innovative cooling designs for the CDC 6600 and CRAY-1

Founded ground-breaking Cray Research in 1972