Boris Babayan

Boris Artashesovich Babayan is a Soviet and Russian computer scientist of Armenian descent, born in 1933 in Baku. He is known as the chief architect of the Elbrus family of Soviet supercomputers and is widely credited as one of the pioneering creators of supercomputing in the former Soviet Union and Russia. His work on Elbrus-2 earned him the Lenin Prize in 1987, following a USSR State Prize in 1974 for earlier computer-aided design achievements, and he was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1984. He later became an Intel Fellow, directing architecture work for the company's Software and Solutions Group from 2004 until his retirement in 2022.