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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Steve S. Chen
| other_names = {{zh|陳世卿}}
| birth_place = Taiwan
| residence = 
| nationality = Taiwanese
| field = [[Computer science]] <br/> [[Electrical engineering]]
| work_institutions = Cray Research
| alma_mater = National Taiwan University<br/> Villanova University<br/>  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
| known_for =  [[Cray X-MP]] and [[Cray Y-MP]]
| thesis_title      = Speedup of Interactive Programs in Multiprocessing Systems
| thesis_url        = https://www.proquest.com/docview/302762807/81686A711496482BPQ
| thesis_year       = 1975
| doctoral_advisor  = [[Biography:David Kuck|David Kuck]] 
}}

'''Steve Chen''' ({{zh|陳世卿}}; [[Pinyin|pinyin]]: Chén Shìqīng) (born 1944 in Taiwan) is a Taiwanese computer engineer and internet entrepreneur.

Chen was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 1991<ref>{{Cite web |title= Dr. Steve S. Chen |work= NAE Web Site |url= https://www.nae.edu/27926.aspx |access-date= January 18, 2017 }}</ref> for leadership in the development of super-computer architectures and their realization.

==Life==
Chen earned a BS from National Taiwan University in 1966. MS from Villanova University in 1971 and a PhD under [[Biography:David Kuck|David Kuck]] from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1975.<ref>Shyh-Ching "Steve" Chen, Speedup of Interactive Programs in Multiprocessing Systems, PhD thesis, Tech. Report UIUCDCS-R-75-694, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill., January 1975</ref>

From 1975 through 1978 he worked for [[Company:Burroughs Corporation|Burroughs Corporation]] on the design of the [[Burroughs large systems]] line of [[Supercomputer|supercomputer]]s. He is best known as the principal designer of the [[Cray X-MP]] and [[Cray Y-MP]] multiprocessor supercomputers.  Chen left Cray Research in September 1987 after it dropped the MP line.<ref>{{Cite news |title= Cray Drops Computer Venture as Too Risky; Top Researcher Resign |author= Donald Woutat |work= Los Angeles Times |date= September 3, 1987 |url= http://articles.latimes.com/1987-09-03/business/fi-5826_1_cray-research |access-date= January 18, 2017 }}</ref>

With [[Company:IBM|IBM]]'s financial support, Chen founded Supercomputer Systems Incorporated (SSI) in January 1988.<ref>{{Cite news |title= Steve Chen Touts for Funds |work= Computer Business Review |date= November 29, 1988 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title= IBM Buys Into Firm Building Supercomputer: Funds Engineer Who Had Project Killed at Cray Research |author= Carla Lazzareschi |work= Los Angeles Times |date= December 23, 1987 |url= http://articles.latimes.com/1987-12-23/business/fi-20536_1_cray-research |access-date= January 18, 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |work= Time Magazine |date= March 28, 1988 |title= Fast and Smart: Designers race to build the supercomputers of the future |author= Philip Elmer-Dewitt |url= http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,967086,00.html }}</ref>
SSI was devoted to development of the SS-1 supercomputer, which was nearly completed before the estimated $150 million investment ran out. The Eau Claire, Wisconsin-based company went bankrupt in early 1993, leaving more than 300 employees jobless.<ref>{{Cite news |title= Firm's Flop Adds To Computer Confusion |work= Chicago Tribune |date= May 7, 1993 |author= Chuck Murry |url= http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-05-07/business/9305070179_1_supercomputer-business-ssi-computer-science |access-date= January 18, 2017 }}</ref>

An attempt to salvage the work was made by forming a new company, SuperComputer International (SCI), later that year. SCI was renamed Chen Systems in 1995.<ref>{{Cite news |title= Designer Starts New Computer Company |work= New York Times |date= July 3, 1995 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/03/business/designer-starts-new-computer-company.html |access-date= January 18, 2017 }}</ref> It was acquired by [[Company:Sequent Computer Systems|Sequent Computer Systems]] the following year. John Markoff, a technology journalist, wrote in the ''{{wipe|New York Times}}'' that Chen was considered "one of the nation's most brilliant supercomputer designers while working in this country for the technology pioneer [[Biography:Seymour Cray|Seymour Cray]] in the 1980s."<ref name="nyt04">{{Cite news |title= Have Supercomputer, Will Travel |work= New York Times |author= John Markoff |date= November 1, 2004 |url= http://arneberg.com/chippewa/articles/2004.1101.chen/ <!-- copyright? --> |access-date= January 18, 2017 }}</ref>

In 1999, Chen became founder and CEO of Galactic Computing, a developer of supercomputing blade systems, based in Shenzhen, {{wipe|China}}.<ref name="nyt04" /><ref>{{Cite news |title= China to lead supercomputing sector |date= October 25, 2004 |work= China Business Weekly |url= http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-10/25/content_385499.htm |access-date= January 18, 2017 }}</ref>
At Tonbu, Inc., his team designed and implemented the world's first fully scalable cloud computing system. A fully scalable dynamic process and application engine. 
 
By 2005 he started to focus on [[Grid computing|grid computing]] to model a human brain instead.<ref>{{Cite web |title= The Third-Brain: The Next Generation of Supercomputer Design Beyond PetaFlop/s - an interview with Steve Chen |work= Primeur Weekly |date= August 7, 2006 |url= http://www.hoise.com/primeur/06/articles/weekly/AE-PR-09-06-1.html  |archive-date= September 28, 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070928094845/http://www.hoise.com/primeur/06/articles/weekly/AE-PR-09-06-1.html |access-date= January 18, 2017 }}</ref>

By 2010, he was reported to be working on technology to use [[Cloud computing|cloud computing]] to improve [[Medicine:Health care|health care]] in rural China.<ref>{{Cite news |title= Steve Chen Launching China's 'Medical Cloud' |author= Sherry Lee |date= June 24, 2010 |work= CommonWealth Magazine |url= http://english.cw.com.tw/article.do?action=show&id=12054 |access-date= January 18, 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |title= Empowering village doctors and enhancing rural healthcare using cloud computing in a rural area of mainland China |author=Che-Wei Lina |author2=Shabbir Syed Abdul |author3=Daniel L. Clinciu |author4=Jeremiah Scholl |author5=Xiangdong Jin Haifei Luf |author6=Steve S. Chen |author7=Usman Iqbal |author8=Maxwell J. Heineckg |author9=Yu-Chuan Li |date= February 2014 |volume= 113 |issue= 2 |pages= 585–592 |journal= Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine |doi= 10.1016/j.cmpb.2013.10.005 |pmid= 24296075 |s2cid= 18424749 |url= https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4d85/1eca7f3342c26fa351a1b61359afc44ca8d3.pdf |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170131184023/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4d85/1eca7f3342c26fa351a1b61359afc44ca8d3.pdf  |archive-date= 2017-01-31 }}</ref>

In 2011, he founded Information Supergrid Technologies USA.<ref>{{Cite web |title= About Us |work= Information Supergrid Technologies web site |url= http://www.isupergrid.com/about-us/ |access-date= January 18, 2017 }}</ref>



==See also==
*Taiwanese Americans

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081206193444/http://www.galactic.com.hk/english/index.asp Galactic Computing]


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