Steve Wallach
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Sevin Rosen Funds
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, and Interwest, and a consultant to the United States Department of Energy
United States Department of Energy
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Advanced Scientific Computing (ASC) program at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory, managed and operated by Los Alamos National Security , located in Los Alamos, New Mexico...
. Wallach was previously Vice President of technology for Chiaro Networks and was co-founder of Convex Computer
Convex Computer
Convex Computer Corporation was a company that developed, manufactured and marketed vector minisupercomputers and supercomputers for small-to-medium-sized businesses. Their later Exemplar series of parallel computing machines were based on the Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC microprocessors, and in 1995,...
, their Chief Technology Officer and Senior V.P. of Development.
After Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard
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bought Convex, Wallach became the chief technology officer of Hewlett-Packard's large systems group. He was also a visiting professor at Rice University
Rice University
William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...
from 1998-1999. Prior to Convex, he was manager of Advanced Development for Data General
Data General
Data General was one of the first minicomputer firms from the late 1960s. Three of the four founders were former employees of Digital Equipment Corporation. Their first product, the Data General Nova, was a 16-bit minicomputer...
. His efforts on the MV/8000 are chronicled in Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder
John Tracy Kidder is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer of the 1981 nonfiction narrative, The Soul of a New Machine, about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation...
's Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
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winner The Soul of a New Machine
The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder's non-fiction book, The Soul of a New Machine, chronicles the experiences of an engineering team racing to design a next generation computer under a blistering schedule and tremendous pressure. This machine was eventually launched in 1980 as the Data General Eclipse MV/8000...
. Wallach has 33 patents and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Engineering
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, an IEEE Fellow and was a founding member of PITAC (The Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee).
Education
- B.S., electrical engineering, Polytechnic University in Brooklyn
- M.S., electrical engineering, University of Pennsylvania
- M.B.A., Boston University.