Steve Chen

Steve Chen (; pinyin: Chén Shìqīng) (born 1944 in Taiwan) is a Taiwanese computer engineer and internet entrepreneur. Chen was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 1991 for leadership in the development of super-computer architectures and their realization. Life Chen earned a BS from National Taiwan University in 1966. MS from Villanova University in 1971 and a PhD under David Kuck from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1975. From 1975 through 1978 he worked for Burroughs Corporation on the design of the Burroughs large systems line of supercomputers. He is best known as the principal designer of the Cray X-MP and Cray Y-MP multiprocessor supercomputers. Chen left Cray Research in September 1987 after it dropped the MP line.