George Michael (computational physicist)

{{Short description|American computational physicist (1926–2008)}}

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| birth_date = February 16, 1926

| birth_place = Buffalo, New York

| death_date = June 5, 2008 (age 82)

| nationality = American

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| alma_mater = University of San Francisco

| employer = Lawrence Livermore Laboratories

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George Anthony Michael (February 16, 1926 – June 5, 2008{{Cite web|url=https://www.llnl.gov/community/retiree-and-employee-resources/in-memoriam/george-michael|title = George A. Michael}}) was an American computational physicist at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories,

involved in the development of supercomputing. He was one of the founders of the annual ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference, first held in 1988. The George Michael

Memorial Fellowship was established in his honor.{{cite web|url=http://sc13.supercomputing.org/content/acmieee-cs-george-michael-memorial-hpc-fellowship-now-accepting-applications |title=ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship Now Accepting Applications |year=2013 |publisher=SC13 (ie Supercomputing Conference 2013) |accessdate=April 26, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520065250/http://sc13.supercomputing.org/content/acmieee-cs-george-michael-memorial-hpc-fellowship-now-accepting-applications |archivedate=May 20, 2013 |df=mdy }} George was the person primarily responsible for doing the interviews and gathering the materials for the web site: [http://www.computer-history.info/ Stories of the Development of Large Scale Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory].