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University of Illinois system. University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. National Taiwan University.
Villanova University.
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Steve Chen
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According to numerous Chinese media reports, Chen has been involved in a conflict when he failed to make salary payments to the employees of his company in Beijing, China, during 2012, which went bankrupt. The employees later sued Chen in court, trying to get their salary. Chen declined any media reporters" requests and the court by flying to United States.
Chen holds a Master of Surgery from Villanova University and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He is best known as the principal designer of the Cray X-Member of Parliament and Cray Y-Member of Parliament multiprocessor supercomputers. Chen left Cray Research in 1987.
With International Business Machines Corporation"s financial support, Chen founded Supercomputer Systems Incorporated in January 1988. Supplemental Security Income was devoted to development of the Steamship-1 supercomputer, which was nearly completed before the money ran out.
The Eau Claire, Wisconsin-based company went bankrupt in 1993, leaving more than 300 employees jobless.
An attempt to salvage the work was made by forming a new company, SuperComputer International (Service Civil International), later that year. Service Civil International was renamed Chen Systems in 1995. lieutenant was acquired by Sequent Computer Systems the following year.
John Markoff, a technology journalist, wrote in the New York Times that Chen was "considered one of the nation"s most brilliant supercomputer designers while working in this country for the technology pioneer Seymour Cray in the 1980s.".
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