William Daniel Hillis 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 was later Vice President of Research and Disney Fellow at Walt Disney Imagineering. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Brewster Kahle, Pioneers Verified en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster_Kahle: "he studied under Marvin Minsky and W. Daniel Hillis" and "Kahle joined the Thinking Machines team, where he was the lead engineer on the company's main product, the Connection Machine, for six years (1983-1989)."
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Danny Hillis designed the Connection Machine as chief scientist of Thinking Machines Corporation, developed from his MIT doctoral work on massively parallel computing.
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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.
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September 25, 1956
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