Name: Boris Artashesovich Babayan

Born: December 20, 1933, in Baku, Soviet Union

  • Armenian (Soviet) supercomputer architect, known as the pioneering creator of supercomputers in the Soviet Union.
  • In the 1970s, as a deputy of chief architect Burtsev V. S. he worked on the first superscalar computer, the Elbrus-1.

Honors and awards

  • USSR State Prize for Achievement (1974).
  • Lenin Prize (1987).