George Michael (computational physicist)

George Anthony Michael (February 16, 1926 – June 5, 2008[1]) was a computational physicist at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, best known for his role in the development of supercomputing. He was one of the founders of the annual ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference, first held in 1988. The George Michael Memorial Fellowship was established in his honor.[2] George was the person primarily responsible for doing the interviews and gathering the materials for the web site: Stories of the Development of Large Scale Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

For other people named George Michael, see George Michael (disambiguation).

George Anthony Michael
BornFebruary 16, 1926
Buffalo, New York
DiedJune 5, 2008 (age 82)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of San Francisco
EmployerLawrence Livermore Laboratories

References
  1. https://www.llnl.gov/community/retiree-and-employee-resources/in-memoriam/george-michael
  2. "ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship Now Accepting Applications". SC13 (ie Supercomputing Conference 2013). 2013. Archived from the original on May 20, 2013. Retrieved April 26, 2013.


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