computer architect

“DNA is a remarkable media for long-term storage,” said Karin Strauss, a Microsoft computer architect.

The impact will be felt far beyond the computer industry, said Robert P. Colwell, a former Intel electrical engineer who helped lead the design of the Pentium microprocessor when he worked as a computer architect at the chip maker from 1990 to 2000.

“It’s the Platonic form of computing and is the natural way to do things,” says Papadopoulos, a former computer architect for HP and Sun.

There’s a storyline that parallels Seymour Cray of Cray Research, the computer architect who would dig forts in his backyard when he needed to think and ended up digging a tunnel all the way under his house. 

“As a computer architect he’s a geek at heart, and yet he really lives to ­understand customers and markets.”