Steve Scott is a computer architect who currently serves as Corporate Vice President at Microsoft.
Cray CTO Steve Scott moves to Microsoft
', Data Center Dynamics, June 15, 2020 Scott was previously a Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Cray Inc.,Cray Appoints Supercomputing Veteran Steve Scott to Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Cray Inc. Press Release (September 10, 2014) Principal Engineer at Google HPC People on the Move: Steve Scott Leaves Nvidia for Google
HPC Insider (August 5, 2013) and the chief technology officer for Nvidia's Tesla business unit.Nvidia Builds A Dream Machine
Forbes Magazine (February 27, 2012). Scott was employed by

Cray Research, Inc. Cray Inc., a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is an American supercomputer manufacturer headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It also manufactures systems for data storage and analytics. Several Cray supercomputer systems are listed i ...

Silicon Graphics, Inc. Silicon Graphics, Inc. (stylized as SiliconGraphics before 1999, later rebranded SGI, historically known as Silicon Graphics Computer Systems or SGCS) was an American high-performance computing manufacturer, producing computer hardware and soft ...

, and Cray, Inc. from 1992 to 2011 (with a brief hiatus in 2005).Steven L. Scott
Forbes.com. He holds 42 patents. In 2005 Scott received both the ACM Maurice Wilkes Award and the IEEE

Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award The Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, also known as the Seymour Cray Award, is an award given by the IEEE Computer Society, to recognize significant and innovative contributions in the field of supercomputer, high-performance computing. The ...

. Scott is a graduate of the

University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin. Founded when Wisconsin achieved statehood in 1848, UW–Madison ...

, where he received a B.S. in electrical and computing engineering, an M.S. in computer science, and a Ph.D. in computer architecture. He resides in

Seattle, Washington Seattle ( ) is a port, seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the county seat, seat of King County, Washington, King County, Washington (state), Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in bo ...

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