Point of View: Keep it small and simple

Gareth Kay

This article explores different ways of working towards innovation in marketing, through the work of a forgotten scientist, and the 1970's fastest supercomputer.

Point of View: Keep it small and simple

Gareth KayChapter

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, I took my daughter to visit the Computer History Museum, just around the corner from the Googleplex in Mountain View. It's a terrific museum that gives real context to the massive change we've seen in technology and our everyday lives over the past 50 years.

One of the highlights of the museum is the ability to learn about some of the 'forgotten' heroes of the computer age. One of these was Seymour Cray, the inventor of the CRAY-1, which between 1976 and 1982 was...

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