Steve Scott (computer architect)

Steve Scott is a computer architect who currently serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Cray Inc. Scott was previously a Principal Engineer at Googleand the chief technology officer for Nvidia's Tesla business unit. Scott was employed by Cray Research, Inc., Silicon Graphics, Inc., and Cray, Inc. from 1992 - 2011 (with a brief hiatus in 2005).
He holds 27 patents. In 2005 Scott received both the ACM Maurice Wilkes Award and the IEEE Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award.
Scott is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin–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.