In 1925, Seymour Cray, “the Father of Supercomputing”, was born.
Seymour Cray designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades. He also founded the company, Cray Research. Seymour Cray died on October 5, 1996.
Learn more at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/seymourbio.