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...broken into the market for so-called supercomputers, which are used mainly for scientific research. The company launched supercomputer projects in the 1950s and 1960s, but could not produce a design that executives believed would be profitable. IBM has since abandoned the specialized field to Control Data and Cray Research...
...expertise with Washington's top-secret National Security Agency (NSA), an organization that gathers intelligence based on electronic eavesdropping. In return, the NSA passes on some of its intelligence and provides technical assistance. Moreover, the U.S. maintains spy bases in Britain whose data are processed at GCHQ, and Cray I, the complicated computer that does most of Cheltenham's decoding, is American-made...
Harvard will go unrepresented in the hurdles as freshman standout Mariquita "Skeets" Patterson will devote herself to an attempt at a one-two finish with teammate Karen Cray in the pentathlon Junior Lenny Yajlma will have to take up Patterson's slack in the long jump. In the Big Time meet, Patterson took third in the event with a 5.26 meter effort...
...absorbed by Sperry Rand, William Norris, one of its founders, left to start Control Data Corp. in 1957, which he financed by selling 615,000 shares of stock for $1 apiece. Today a share of the original stock is worth $324. Another alumnus of Engineering Research was Seymour Cray, who built the world's fastest computers at his company, Cray Research. Both firms thrived in the Minneapolis area, and many other high-technology companies have sprung up near by, where they have benefited from a steady supply of new engineers from the University of Minnesota and an established system...
Venture capitalists provide much of the seed money for U.S. business. By giving out start-up cash to farsighted entrepreneurs, they can open whole new areas of business enterprise. Venture money has fueled the development of the computer industry through investments in Prime Computer, Cray Research, Tandem and other companies, helped spark airline industry diversification with People Express and Air Florida, and bankrolled infant gene-splicing companies like Genentech and Biogen...