Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly two decades, the name Cray Research has been synonymous with supercomputers, those lightning-fast machines used for everything from locating oil deposits to designing nuclear warheads. Not only had Cray seized nearly two-thirds of the world market for number crunchers in the $5 million- to-$25 million range, but it held exclusive license to sell any machine made by Seymour Cray, who is to supercomputers what Alexander Graham Bell was to the telephone...
...Cray and the company he founded have decided to go their separate ways. In an unexpected move, the firm announced last week that it was splitting into two rival entities: Cray Research, based in Minneapolis, and Cray Computer, based in Colorado Springs and headed by Seymour Cray. The new company, financed with $150 million in cash and equipment from its parent firm, will devote itself to developing the long-awaited Cray-3, a computer that will compete head on with the next generation of supermachines produced by Cray Research. "It's a stunning development," says Gary Smaby, an analyst with...
...Cray Research, meanwhile, has had other troubles. Sales are sluggish, profits are down and its stock price has plummeted. With R. and D. expenses growing nearly 35% a year, Chairman John Rollwagen found himself having to choose between two projects: the Cray-3 and the C-90, an extension of the company's bread-and-butter Cray Y-MP line...
Marshall I. Goldman, the associate director of the Russian Research Center, had been interviewed by Soviet reporters before. "You knew it was always going to be a hatchet job," he said...
...session began as an orientation into the workings of the Russian Research Center. A tour of the center's library in the basement of Coolidge Hall was followed by questions and answers about the institute's budget, endowment and access to University-wide resources...