Boris babaian biography

Eighty-year old Boris Babayan was the chief designer of the Soviet Union's Elbrus supercomputer, a unique combination of real-time control and high-performance.

 By Intel Free Press

Babayan, 80, began his student career in 1951 doing some of the world's earliest work in computer science, including inventing one of the ways that computers execute calculations: carry-save arithmetic, which is still used today.

Boris Babayan - Computer Hope

He became one of the pioneers of supercomputing during the Soviet-era.

Based in Moscow, he joined Intel in 2004 when Intel acquired Elbrus MCST. He currently leads Intel's efforts in compilers, binary translation and security technologies.

The study of "machine mathematics"

Babayan was 7 years old when World War II broke out.

Although the brutal Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union did not extend below the Caucasus Mountains into Azerbaijan where Babayan and his family lived, it was nonetheless, as File:Boris bababayn.jpg - Wikimedia Commons DAL