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Seymour Cray was born on September 28, 1925, in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. He sadly died on October 5, 1996, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Seymour was an electrical engineer and a supercomputer architect that designed a series of computers that were the fastest computers in the world for decades. He also founded Cray Research, which had built many of the machines. He was known for being the father of the supercomputer.

Seymour served in the US Army from 1943- 1946. He went to Chippewa High School, and after he graduated, he went to the University of Minnesota. In 1964, Seymour developed the CDC 6600, which was the first architecture to use functional parallelism. He won the Eckert- Mauchly award. Seymour sadly died in a car accident. Seymour's family includes his dad which his name is also Seymour Cray, his mom who is Verene Cray, his sister Carol Kersten, wife Geri M. Harrand, daughters Susan and Carolyn Cray, and his son Steven Cray.

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