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Thinking Machines Corporation was a supercomputer manufacturer and artificial intelligence (AI) company, [1] founded in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1983 by Sheryl Handler and W. Daniel "Danny" Hillis to turn Hillis's doctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on massively parallel computing architectures into a commercial pr...
INC. PREMIUM Startup. The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines. An up-close look at a doomed-yet-brilliant computer startup that never quite grasped the basics of business. By Gary A. Taubes. Feb...
Nov 1, 2006 · Danny Hillis, one of the cofounders of Thinking Machines, talks about the challenges and failures of creating artificial intelligence and the impact of parallel processing. He also shares his views on computational biology, evolution, and the Clock of the Long Now.
Thinking Machines Corporation, founded in 1983, by Danny Hillis, attempted to market a SIMD machine (64,000 processors, but each could only deal with a single bit) called the Connection Machine (CM-1). First marketed in 1985, they sold 7 machines, mainly to research groups.
In 1983 Hillis cofounded the Thinking Machines Corporation to design, build, and market such multiprocessor computers. In 1985 the first of his Connection Machines, the CM-1 (quickly replaced by its more commercial successor, the CM-2), was introduced.
Thinking Machines. As a graduate student at MIT, Hillis co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation to produce and market parallel computers, developing a series of influential products called the Connection Machine. At the time the company produced many of the fastest computers in the world.
The Thinking Machines Corporation, with artificial intelligence as its operating paradigm, was founded on the vision of building a machine that could think. Thinking Machines’ artificial intelligence paradigm had two main components: the company's corporate vision and structure, and its internal engineering design choices.
