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William Daniel Hillis (born September 25, 1956) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and computer scientist, who pioneered parallel computers and their use in artificial intelligence. He founded Thinking Machines Corporation , a parallel supercomputer manufacturer, and subsequently was Vice President of Research and Disney Fellow at Walt ...
Mar 19, 2013 · Danny Hillis is an inventor, scientist, author and engineer. While completing his doctorate at MIT, he pioneered the concept of parallel computers that is now the basis for graphics processors and cloud computing.
The Internet connects billions of people and machines; it's the backbone of modern life. But tech pioneer Danny Hillis thinks the Internet just wasn't designed to grow this big -- and he fears that one big cyber-attack or glitch could shut it down and take civilization with it.
Danny Hillis, American pioneer of parallel processing computers and the founder of Thinking Machines Corporation. He also founded or cofounded other companies, including Applied Minds. Learn more about Hillis’s life and career, including his work with Disney.
Mar 18, 2013 · Danny Hillis shares an amazing artifact from 1982—a directory of anyone who had an email address at the time. Notice how small it is.
Feb 27, 2013 · Danny Hillis: Back to the future (of 1994) Hillis has been a fixture of the tech world (see his TED Talk from 1984 on DNA and its uses). He registered the third domain name in existence: think.com.
Nov 1, 2006 · November 1, 2006. In 1982, when he was still a student at MIT, Danny Hillis cofounded Thinking Machines, one of the most famous failures in the history of computing. A hive of wayward and...
