George Anthony Michael | |
Birth Date: | February 16, 1926 |
Birth Place: | Buffalo, New York |
Death Date: | June 5, 2008 (age 82) |
Nationality: | American |
Alma Mater: | University of San Francisco |
Employer: | Lawrence Livermore Laboratories |
George Anthony Michael (February 16, 1926 – June 5, 2008[1]) was an American computational physicist at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories,involved in the development of supercomputing. He was one of the founders of the annual ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference, first held in 1988. The George MichaelMemorial 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.