Talk by Dr. Steven Chen

Dr. Steve Chen, founder and CEO of Galactic Computing Ltd., has given a seminar in our department on the first Chinese-made, high performance, ultra secure, and real-time collaborative Supercomputing Blade System architecture and its application platform to power China information service grids and to accelerate China information service economics. Dr. Steve Chen received his doctoral degree under Professor David Kuck at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After his graduation, he joined Cray Inc., rising to the position of Principal Designer and Senior Vice President. Dr. Chen led the R&D effort on the development of the Cray-XMP and YMP vector machines which was widely used for research in defense, aerospace and aeronautic engineering, automobile design, gas and oil exploration, material science, meteorology, environmental engineering, chemical engineering, pharmaceutical, biological science and physics. Dr. Chen is well known in the world of science and engineering and is a "super-star" in the field of supercomputing.

In 1991, Dr. Chen and Professor David Tuck were nominated as members of the National Academy of Engineering by the National Science Advisor of the Nixon administration. Dr. Chen is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.