Abstract
Stephen Warner Dunwell was born April 3, 1913, in Kalamazoo, Michigan . He died just short of his 81st birthday on March 21, 1994, in Poughkeepsie, New York, after a lengthy struggle with cancer. During his 42 years with IBM, Steve Dunwell (whom his IBM colleagues early in his career called "Red") was known best for his leadership of Project Stretch, which produced the IBM 7030 supercomputer delivered in 1961. Less well known is the fact that he was one of a few key individuals who persuaded IBM's top management to switch from punched-card machines to computers in the early 1950s. For this alone, he deserves to be considered a computer pioneer. But his earlier work remained virtually unknown outside of IBM until recently, 1 because he insisted on assigning credit for his ideas to his coworkers and having them publish technical papers and reports.
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