Boris Babayan
Computer architecture and parallel computation
Boris Babayan is a computer scientist of Armenian descent, born in Baku in 1933. His long career has focused on designing high-performance computing systems and their software.
He was a key contributor to the Elbrus computer family. His work emphasized parallel computation, efficient instruction execution and the joint design of hardware and software to expand computational capability.
Babayan joined Intel in 2004 and was appointed an Intel Fellow in recognition of his technical contributions. His career connects the Soviet computing tradition with international microprocessor research, demonstrating the role of computer architecture in technological development.