William (Danny) Daniel Hillis

By admin , 21 December 2015
William
Daniel
Hillis
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Description

Co-founder of Thinking Machines Corporation, Hillis developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer he designed at MIT. He also co-founded the Long Now Foundation, Applied Minds, and Metaweb, and authored The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work.

Thinking Machines Corporation
American inventor, entrepreneur, and author; co-founder of Thinking Machines Corporation
Date of Birth
1956-09-25
William (Danny) Daniel Hillis

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