Steve Wallach
Steve Wallach (born September 1945 in Brooklyn , New York ) is an American computer architect.
Wallach studied electrical engineering at Brooklyn Polytechnic University and the University of Pennsylvania ( master's degree in electrical engineering). He also earned a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Boston University .
In the 1970s he was at Data General , where he was involved in the development of the Eclipse MV / 8000 minicomputer, which was launched in 1980 and was to hold the company against stiff competition from DEC . He was the manager of the advanced development division at Data General. The development is described in Tracy Kidder's book The soul of a new machine , which won the Pulitzer Prize .
In 1982 he and Bob Paluck founded Convex Computer in Richardson , which built a number of supercomputers (similar to the vector processor computers from Cray Research, only cheaper). In 1995 the company was taken over by Hewlett-Packard (whose RISC processors they had already used in their later computers). Wallach was its Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and, after the takeover by Hewlett Packard, CTO of the Large Systems Group at HP.
He later held various advisory functions (including the DOE's Advanced Scientific Computing Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory and various venture capital firms). In 2008 he helped found Convey Computers, a company that built flexible supercomputers based on FPGAs .
In 1998/99 he was visiting professor at Rice University . In 2008 he received the Seymour Cray Award . He is an IEEE Fellow and a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering .
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| SURNAME | Wallach, Steve |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York |