Dan David Prize (2002) Grace Murray Hopper Award (1989)
Scientific career
Fields
Computer Science Computer Engineering
Institutions
Thinking Machines Walt Disney Imagineering Applied Invention
Doctoral advisor
Marvin Minsky Gerald Jay Sussman Claude Shannon
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 Disney Imagineering.
Hillis was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 for advances in parallel computers, parallel software, and parallel storage.
More recently, Hillis co-founded Applied Minds,[2] and Applied Invention, an interdisciplinary group of engineers, scientists, and artists.[3]
^"Picnic at Danny Hillis & Taylor Milsal's home". Long Now Boston. Archived from the original on October 30, 2020. Retrieved May 5, 2022.
^"Applied Minds, LLC". AppliedMinds.com. Archived from the original on October 8, 1999. Retrieved January 20, 2018.
^"Applied Invention". www.AppliedInvention.com. Archived from the original on October 27, 2020. Retrieved January 20, 2018.
Intelligence Laboratory, Hillis designed tendon-controlled robot arms and a touch-sensitive robot "skin". During his college years, Hillis was part of the team...
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alternatives to the traditional von Neumann architecture of computers by DannyHillis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the early 1980s. Starting...
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)...
Names: And the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier, included essays by DannyHillis, Marvin Minsky, Mark Pesce, Richard Stallman and others. It was a finalist...
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city planning at MIT when she met DannyHillis, a fellow MIT graduate student working on parallel computing. Hillis and his PhD advisor, Marvin Minsky...
Do With Your Time? Don't Try This". WSJ. Retrieved March 24, 2014. Hillis, Danny; McCarthy, John; Mitchell, Tom M.; Mueller, Erik T.; Riecken, Doug;...
featuring contributions by academics and experts in the field such as DannyHillis, Ray Kurzweil, Kevin Esvelt and Sherry Turkle. Commercials Miller also...
bsdgames package on modern BSD and Linux operating systems. In 1978, DannyHillis, working as a summer intern on the TMS9918 graphics chip, wrote a graphical...
Robin Hanson Donna Haraway Neil Harbisson Stephen Hawking Keith Henson DannyHillis James Hughes (sociologist) Zoltan Istvan Dmitry Itskov Bryan Johnson...
between MIT alums, Greg Papadopoulos and Dave Douglas from Sun Labs and DannyHillis from Applied Minds to determine what is the largest possible “thumb drive”...
Creative Officer of Applied Minds, which he co-founded in 2000 with DannyHillis. Apple's "pinch-to-zoom" patent, which features prominently in its legal...
remained there until Ferren left to start Applied Minds Inc with Imagineer DannyHillis, leading to the cessation of the Fellows program. In 2001, Kay founded...
Slack Kevin Henrikson Zimbra, Outlook Mobile Joe Hewitt Firefox, Parakey DannyHillis Metaweb, Applied Minds David Hindawi Tanium, BigFix Inc Orion Hindawi...
Martin Grotjahn Sofia Gruskin Joshua H. Ritchie Astrid Heppenstall Heger DannyHillis Joan Hodgman Todd M. Hutton Frank Jobe Jae U. Jung Francine Ratner Kaufman...
for Theoretical Genetics (1940) Doctoral advisor Frank Lauren Hitchcock Doctoral students DannyHillis Leonard Kleinrock Ivan Sutherland Bert Sutherland...
friend and colleague DannyHillis why Hillis appeared so sad. Hillis replied that he thought Feynman was going to die soon. Hillis quotes Feynman as replying:...
Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) held at Stanford. 1981 DannyHillis designs the connection machine, which utilizes parallel computing to...
Conference in 1984 Long Now Foundation in 1996, with computer scientist DannyHillis—one of the foundation's projects is to build a 10,000 year clock, the...
Systems Biology, Ed Harlow of Harvard Medical School, Bran Ferren and DannyHillis of Applied Minds, and Sir John Pendry of Imperial College.[citation needed]...
Patterson, Berkeley_RISC RISC I and II John L. Hennessy, MIPS architecture DannyHillis, Connection Machine Charles Seitz, Cosmic Cube H. T. Kung, WARP Jim Clark...
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