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	Connection Machine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Connection Machine was a series of supercomputers that grew out of Danny Hillis's research in the early 1980s at MIT on alternatives to the traditional von Neumann architecture of computation.
		Hillis and Sheryl Handler founded Thinking Machines in Waltham, Massachusetts and assembled a team to develop the CM1 and then the CM-2, which depending on the configuration had as many as 65,536 processors.
		Danny Hillis's original thesis paper, on which the Connection Machine was based, is The Connection Machine (MIT Press Series in Artificial Intelligence) (ISBN 0262081571).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Connection_Machine (345 words)

	Edge: W. DANIEL HILLIS
		Danny Hillis is also the designer of a 10,000-year mechanical clock.
		Hillis is co-chairman of The Long Now Foundation, a member of the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute, the SETI Institute's Technical Advisory Committee, the Advisory Board of Yale's Institute for Biospheric Studies, the National Academy of Engineering, and the board of the Hertz Foundation.
		Hillis is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Spirit of American Creativity Award for his inventions, the Hopper Award for his contributions to computer science and the Ramanujan Award for his work in applied mathematics.
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/bios/hillis.html (934 words)

	O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2005
		Danny Hillis is co-chairman and chief technology officer of Applied Minds, Inc., a research and development company creating a range of new products and services in software, entertainment, electronics, biotechnology, and mechanical design.
		Hillis is co-chairman of The Long Now Foundation, a member of the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute, the SETI Institute's Technical Advisory Committee, and the board of the Hertz Foundation.
		Hillis is the recipient of numerous awards, including the inaugural Dan David Prize for shaping and enriching society and public life, the Spirit of American Creativity Award for his inventions, the Hopper Award for his contributions to computer science, and the Ramanujan Award for his work in applied mathematics.
	conferences.oreillynet.com /cs/et2005/view/e_spkr/2093 (808 words)

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		Hillis proposed to break this computational logjam by replacing the single high-speed processor with large numbers of tiny computer chips that would attack the data in concert.
		The experts scoffed when Hillis argued that such ''massively parallel'' computers would soon move into the mainstream of computer science, surpassing in sheer speed and processing power even the famous supercomputers built by Cray Research.
		Hillis' achievement also underscores the growing importance of supercomputers -- loosely defined as the most powerful number crunchers available at any given time.
	www.well.com /user/ped/clips/Massive_Parallelism_11_11_91.txt (1274 words)

	seven maga zine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Danny Hillis, an American inventor and computer designer, has designed a clock which he hopes will tick just once each year.
		Hillis tells with admiration the story of the oak beams in the College Hall of New College, Oxford.
		When it came time for their replacement in the nineteenth century, the timber used was milled from trees planted in 1386 for that purpose; the year the College was built.
	www.sevenmagazine.org /index.php?archive=092002_02 (1268 words)

	No Privacy in , 123webguru.com website design company
		Hillis was a pioneer in the design of extremely powerful computers known as massively parallel supercomputers, having founded Thinking Machines, a company based in Cambridge, Mass., that subsequently went out of business in 1982.
		Hillis recently demonstrated the system, which was developed for a government agency (under the contract, Mr.
		Hillis is not allowed to name it), to a large convention of cartographers in San Diego.
	www.123webguru.com /website_design_news/noprivacyi325.html (1464 words)

	Hertz Foundation: Home
		Dr. Hillis is co-founder of Applied Minds, a company that invents, designs, creates and prototypes high-technology products and services for a broad range of applications.
		Hillis holds over 50 U.S. patents and is the designer of a 10,000-year mechanical clock.
		Hillis received a Hertz Foundation Fellowship at MIT from 1978-1984, is a recipient of the Hertz Foundation Thesis Prize, and is on the Board of Directors of the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation.
	www.hertzfndn.org /hillis.shtml (152 words)

	John Battelle's Searchblog: A Morning With Danny Hillis
		Danny has a million great ideas and is something of a polymath.
		Danny has a lot of things to say about search, it's an area he finds rich in implications, in particular as it relates to some of the long-term projects he's involved in, such as the Clock of the Long Now.
		Danny and Bram have, in essence, created a lab where they get paid to think orthogonal to a problem, and invent/design/prototype just about any kind of solution they can dream up.
	battellemedia.com /archives/000712.php (1457 words)

	this is sippey.com: Just One Question for Carl Steadman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Danny Hillis, a pioneer in massively parallel computing, wants to build a millennium clock, a clock that ticks once a year.
		What Hillis doesn't seem to realize is that we stopped thinking about time long ago.
		Because of people like Danny Hillis, the '90s has been the decade that time stood still.
	sippey.com /archives/000873.php (1152 words)

	O'Reilly Network: Remix Begins at the Breakfast Table
		Danny Hillis, co-chairman and CTO of Applied Minds, Inc, told the opening day audience of the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference that the remix theme often begins at the breakfast table.
		Hillis showed a video of him demonstrating an implementation of his childhood dream at a recent conference for map makers.
		Hillis reported that although most of them spend their days in front of a computer screen working on maps, they all had been drawn to the profession by their relationship with the paper models.
	www.oreillynet.com /pub/a/network/2005/03/16/etech_3.html (1135 words)

	The Mind of an Inventor - Next Frontiers - MSNBC.com
		Danny Hillis, who can't remember a time when he wasn't trying to make mind-blowing stuff, comes at the question, as usual, from an unexpected angle: potential inventors are un-made.
		Fortunately for Hillis, his approach to the world is as fresh and playful as it was in the fourth grade, when he decided to build a robot out of paint cans, motors and light bulbs.
		Though Hillis may not be a household word, he's definitely on the radar of those in the top ranks of science, government and business.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/9558120/site/newsweek (1171 words)

	Digerati: The Genius: w. Daniel Hillis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Danny is one of the great spirits of the computer industry.
		The founder of Thinking Machines Corporation and the innovative designer of the massively parallel "connection machine," Danny used to drive to work in a fire engine and was once a toy designer for Milton Bradley.
		DANNY HILLIS is vice president of research and development at the Walt Disney Company and a Disney Fellow.
	www.edge.org /digerati/hillis (315 words)

	voice of humanity: A System for Negating Alternatives
		Danny Hillis of Thinking Machines fame has published an article on the Edge about his latest venture, "Aristotle" (The Knowledge Web).
		Hillis' article has replies by several well known thinkers from the Edge's Reality Club, and they roast Hillis over the AI issue pretty thoroughly, in the academic manner.
		With the basics of the semantic web now in place, though, my guess is that Danny's company can come up with something that begins to work as his Aristotle.
	blog.voiceofhumanity.net /newslog2.php/__show_article/_a000252-000041.htm (777 words)

	Agents '97 Invited Talks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Daniel (Danny) Hillis was named the first Disney Fellow and became vice president of research and development at The Walt Disney Company in early 1996.
		Born in 1956 in Baltimore, Maryland, Dr. Hillis attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his bachelor of science in mathematics in 1978.
		Hillis is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Hopper Award, the Spirit of American Creativity Award, and the Ramanujan Award.
	www.isi.edu /isd/AA97/invited-talks.html~ (741 words)

	The Pattern on the Stone by Daniel Hillis (kottke.org)
		In fairness to Hillis and the book, the above quote appears at the end of the third chapter.
		In the preceding text, he very carefully explains how a computer works -- clearly defining abstraction and finite-state machines -- starting with 1s and 0s and adding one layer of abstraction at a time until he's described a fully programmable computer.
		Hillis also describes a tinkertoy computer he built, which is kind of amusing.
	www.kottke.org /02/07/the-pattern-on-the-stone-by-daniel-hillis (1129 words)

	Long Bets [ Discuss It All ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hillis' argument to the effect that 'we are missing something important' has a 100% chance of being correct.
		Both Paul and Neil are leading cosmologists, and whether their theory or another is correct, it is hard to close the book on this bet while new ideas like this keep popping up.
		The chance that a new theory or some discordant data might overthrow the dominant paradigm may seem small, but at the end of the 19th century a predominant number of physicists thought that the classical paradigm of Newton and Maxwell would soon create a complete description of the Universe.
	discuss.longbets.org /discuss/postlist.php?Cat=&Board=7 (5329 words)

	Software Development>January 2000: Features: Lessons from the Long Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Computer scientist Daniel (Danny) Hillis, vice-president for research and design at the Walt Disney Co., may be the exception to this recent and unfortunate rule.
		Hillis, a pioneer in massively parallel computing in the 1980s, is part of a geographically dispersed consortium–the Long Now Foundation–that is building a unique clock designed to tick for 10,000 years.
		An inventor, scientist and computer designer, Hillis is one of the few people nowadays looking beyond the average five- to 30-year technological cycle.
	www.sdmagazine.com /documents/s=748/sdm0001a/0001a.htm (631 words)

	The New York Times > Technology > No Privacy in Your Cubicle? Try an Electronic Silencer
		Danny Hillis of Applied Minds with the Babble, which attaches to a telephone and makes the caller's voice sound like a muffled cacophony to anyone within earshot.
		Danny Hillis, left, and Bran Ferren have formed Applied Minds, a research and consulting company with design projects in diverse fields.
		The voice scrambling technology used in Babble was developed by Applied Minds, a research and consulting firm founded by Danny Hillis, a distinguished computer architect, and Bran Ferren, an industrial designer and Hollywood special effects wizard.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/05/30/technology/30hillis.html?ei=5090&en=4a1c68b85a47519f&ex=1275105600&partner=techdirt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&position= (1482 words)

	Hillis
		Thinking Machines Inc., founded in 1983 while Hillis was in the middle of his PhD work, was a remarkable organization.
		Hillis holds some 40 U.S. patents--for disk arrays, forgery prevention methods, a color camera and various software and mechanical devices.
		Having spent most of his career at the intersection between business and science, Hillis is acutely aware of the difficulties of balancing the different goals of these very different enterprises.
	www.goertzel.org /benzine/Hillis.htm (3391 words)

	First Parish of Sudbury (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		[Hillis’] fellow board members were enthusiastic [in their response] but ventured that perhaps Danny had been working at Disney too long.
		Danny Hillis admits that his friends either assume he’s having a midlife crisis or that he’s not really serious.
		For example, Danny Hillis points out that we still have raw data from previous ages written on clay, stone, parchment and paper.
	www.fpsudbury.org /kl/clock022204.htm (4011 words)

	Techdirt:Danny Hillis Invents The Cone Of Silence For Herman Miller
		Techdirt:Danny Hillis Invents The Cone Of Silence For Herman Miller
		Danny Hillis Invents The Cone Of Silence For Herman Miller
		Working with Herman Miller, the furniture people, Hillis' Applied Minds is finally coming out with its first commercialized product: the Babble -- designed to make conversations around you fade into nothingness.
	sss.techdirt.com /articles/20050530/2252241_F.shtml (614 words)

	Walt Disney and the Long Now (from Hillis, Danny) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hillis left Thinking Machines in 1995 to return to MIT as an adjunct professor and to start his own consulting company.
		More results on "Walt Disney and the Long Now (from Hillis, Danny)" when you join.
		The son of Lebanese immigrants, U.S. radio, screen, and television comedian Danny Thomas was born Muzyab Rakhoob on Jan. 6, 1914, in Deerfield, Mich. He starred in the 1950s and 1960s television situation comedy Make Room for Daddy (renamed The Danny Thomas Show in 1957), winning an Emmy award in 1955.
	0-www.britannica.com.library.unl.edu /eb/article-214758 (738 words)

	Romancing the Unabomber / How we learned to start worrying and fear the future
		I respect Danny's knowledge of the information and physical sciences more than that of any other single person I know.
		In the end, Hillis told Joy that at least part of what he foresaw -- robots taking over from humans -- would indeed occur, but so slowly that when the time came, it would not seem so bad.
		Hillis and Joy are trying to tell us something, but they don't know how to say it.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/07/29/IN222277.DTL (2897 words)

	Project Page: Metaweb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Metaweb is a system that will allow users of the Internet to locate and efficiently use information on health and other topics.
		It is currently in an early phase of design and development by Applied Minds, Inc., a research and development company co-chaired by Danny Hillis, who is credited with inventing the concept of parallel process computing.
		Danny Hillis, Applied Minds, Inc., Clay Shirky, independent consultant, et al.
	www.markle.org /markle_programs/healthcare/projects/appliedminds.php (260 words)

	Leigh Bureau - W. Colston Leigh, Inc.
		A former vice president of research and development at The Walt Disney Company and the first Disney Fellow, Danny has designed some of the fastest computers in the world and pioneered the concept of parallel computers, now the basis for most supercomputers, as well as the RAID disk array technology used to store large databases.
		Danny holds over 40 U.S. patents, covering parallel computers, disk arrays, forgery prevention methods, and various electronic and mechanical devices.
		Danny Hillis is also the designer of a 10,000-year mechanical clock and the author of The Pattern On The Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work, which describes how computers work and explores their future.
	www.leighbureau.com /speaker.asp?id=88 (454 words)

	Employment in the new millennium - jobs for the 21st century!
		As cultures mutate at the click of the mouse, Danny Hillis sits in Disneyland and takes a long, some say crazy, diversion from the high-wired pulls of the Techno Age.
		The MIT futurist guru who pioneered the concept of parallel computers that led to today’s supercomputers is now bringing his genius to bear on a mechanical (yes), hand-cranked (yes), clock that will stand the test of time.
		While Hillis was adopting an elliptical back-to-the-future strategy in search of permanence, Internet savant Douglas Engelbart was holding forth at a managers’ seminar in Menlo Park recently.
	www.dancewithshadows.com /work.asp (628 words)

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