Seymour Cray, visionary pioneer of supercomputing, is dead at 71

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Seymour R. Cray, a computer industry pioneer and the father of the supercomputer, died October 5, at a hospital near his home in Colorado Springs. He was 71 and had been in the hospital since an automobile wreck two weeks ago. Officials at Penrose Community Hospital said the cause was the severe head injuries Cray had received in the accident.