Editing Seymour Cray (section)

===Engineering Research Associates===
In 1950, Cray joined [[Engineering Research Associates]] (ERA) in [[Saint Paul, Minnesota]].<ref name="IEEECS"/> ERA had formed out of a former [[United States Navy]] laboratory that had built codebreaking machines, a tradition ERA carried on when such work was available. ERA was introduced to computer technology during one such effort, but in other times had worked on a wide variety of basic engineering as well.

Cray quickly came to be regarded as an expert on digital computer technology, especially following his design work on the [[ERA 1103]], the first commercially successful scientific computer.  He remained at ERA when it was bought by [[Remington Rand]] and then [[Sperry Corporation]] in the early 1950s. At the newly formed [[Sperry Corporation#Sperry Rand|Sperry Rand]], ERA became the scientific computing arm of their [[UNIVAC]] division.