Burton J. Smith

Burton J.
Smith is one of co-founders and has been Chief Scientist and a Director since 1988.
He served as Chairman from 1988 to June 1999.
He is a recognized authority on high performance computer architecture and programming languages for parallel computers.
He is the principal architect of the Cray MTA system and heads our Cascade project.
Mr. Smith was a Fellow of the Supercomputing Research Center, a division of the Institute for Defense Analyses, from 1985 to 1988.
In 2003 he received the Seymour Cray Computing Engineering Award from the IEEE Computer Society and was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
He was honored in 1990 with the Eckert-Mauchly Award given jointly by the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery, and was elected a Fellow of both organizations in 1994.
Mr. Smith received S.M., E.E.
and Sc.D.
degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.