Ken Batcher
Ken Batcher is one of the computer architects at Goodyear [now Loral] Aerospace in Dayton, Ohio, USA. Among the designs he worked on were
the Massively Parallel Processor [Goodyear MPP] (16,384 [2^14] custom bit-serial processors {8 to a chip} organized in a SIMD 128 by 128 processor array with additional CPU rows for fault-tolerance} and located at the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center [currently at the Smithsonian] and which predated Danny Hillis' Thinking Machines Corp.'s Connection Machine) and
the Goodyear STARAN associative processor arrays, a version of which was found apparently in the USAF AWACS planes.
Batcher is best known for his half-serious, half-humorous definition of a supercomputer being a computer which turns a compute-bound problem into an I/O-bound problem.
