For those of you born in the last decade or two, the name of Cray may have only meant a computer company or a form of seafood. It is best known in the IT industry as Seymour Cray, known as the father of the supercomputer.
An overview of his life is at The Inquirer, and a selection of links for more information is below. His untimely death has robbed us of his insight and probably another generation or two of his unique supercomputer designs.
Cray Computer's story about Seymour Cray.