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	W. Daniel Hillis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hillis is a member of the Global Business Network and founded Thinking Machines which developed the Connection Machine; a computer that employs parallel distributed processing (PDP).
		Hillis' biggest stab at fame and fortune was Thinking Machines Inc., a firm that lasted 11 years, created the world’s fastest parallel computing hardware at the time, yet failed to either create a thinking computer program or make Hillis fabulously wealthy.
		Hillis’ system, on the other hand, had the flexibility of the brain – each processor could do what it wanted when it wanted – which led to the possibility of computational chaos, intelligent coordinated activity, or most intriguing, the combination of the two.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Danny_Hillis (3262 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)

	SPECIAL RELATIVITY: WHY CAN'T YOU GO FASTER THAN LIGHT? — An Essay by W. Daniel Hillis
		Danny Hillis, physicist and computer scientist, brings together, in full circle, many of the ideas circulating among third culture thinkers: Marvin Minsky's society of mind; Christopher G. Langton's artificial life; Richard Dawkins' gene's-eye view; the plectics practiced at Santa Fe.
		At MIT in the late seventies, Hillis built his "connection machine," a computer that makes use of integrated circuits and, in its parallel operations, closely reflects the workings of the human mind.
		Marvin Minsky says "Danny Hillis is one of the most inventive people I've ever met, and one of the deepest thinkers." Philosopher Daniel C. Dennett says, "what Danny did was to create if not the first then one of the first really practical, really massive, parallel computers.
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/hillis (1039 words)

	Time Machine - - science news articles online technology magazine articles Time Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Hillis, at first motivated by a vague desire to promote long-term thinking, has been transformed by his idea: "Now I think about people who will live 10,000 years from now as real people." His eyes take on a distant focus as he says this, as if he sees them massed on the horizon.
		Universally called Danny, Hillis is affable and witty but tends to veer abruptly into subjects like lattice theory, which "describes a piece of graph paper in n dimensions," and from there the conversation becomes a labyrinth impossible to negotiate.
		Hillis is still mulling how to handle that, but he knows for sure that the final clock will somehow mirror the positions of the planets relative to the stars and to one another.
	www.discover.com /issues/nov-05/cover (3620 words)

	Danny Hillis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Daniel Hillis (born September 25, 1956, Baltimore, Maryland) is an American computer scientist.
		Hillis wrote The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work (Basic Books, 1998 ISBN 0465025951) and is interested in unconventional theoretical computers such as parallel computers, which might be far more powerful than conventional ones.
		Hillis is also a co-founder, with Stewart Brand, of the Long Now Foundation.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Danny_Hillis (187 words)

	Edge: W. DANIEL HILLIS
		Dr. Hillis has published scientific papers in journals such as Science, Nature, Modern Biology, Communications of the ACM and International Journal of Theoretical Physics and he is an editor of several other scientific journals, including Artificial Life, Complexity, Complex Systems, Future Generation Computer Systems and Applied Mathematics.
		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)

	WhosWho Chicago: Margaret Hillis : CenterstageChicago.com - Chicago City Life in Chicago, Illinois
		Margaret Hillis, the founder and director laureate of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, died Wednesday just a few weeks before the 200-member group, the first American professional symphony chorus, was to celebrate its 40th anniversary.
		Recruited in New York in 1957 by then-Orchestra director Fritz Reiner, Hillis went on to put together a group that came to be recognized as one of the world's great choral organizations, performing national and foreign tours, and winning nine Grammy awards, more than any comparable US group.
		Hillis led the chorus nearly 600 times, and in 45 recordings before handing over the reins in 1994 to Duain Wolfe.
	centerstage.net /music/whoswho/MargaretHillis.html (354 words)

	Dexter Daily Statesman: Story: Hillis recreates historic journey; makes statement on Confederate battle flag
		The three pillars of Hillis' campaign are what he calls the three R's: Respect for Missouri history, restoration of state sovereignty and restraint of an activist judiciary.
		Hillis became involved as an advocate for putting the flag back up and implementing legislation to put a public board over Mahfood's position to review such a decision.
		According to Hillis, the history of the flag and the Confederacy in Missouri is something that shouldn't be forgotten.
	www.dailystatesman.com /story/1077485.html (612 words)

	Long Now > People > Board Members > Danny Hillis
		Hillis has published scientific papers in journals such as Science, Nature, Modern Biology, Communications of the ACM and International Journal of Theoretical Physics and he is an editor of several other scientific journals, including Artificial Life, Complexity, Complex Systems, Future Generation Computer Systems and Applied Mathematics.
		Hillis has worked as a consultant to many companies developing technology-related business strategies, including ATandT, Xerox, Kodak, Schlumberger, IBM and Hewlett-Packard, as well as smaller companies such as Screaming Media, H5Technologies (formerly Ejemoni), Alexa Internet, and Direct Medical Knowledge.
		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, and the board of the Hertz Foundation.
	www.longnow.org /people/board (936 words)

	Cliff Hillis press/reviews
		Hillis’ perspective is not of a man searching for a reward to come rolling down the bend, but rather of a man content in the now, enjoying the journey on the road presently traveled.
		Hillis recently shared that what began as a subversive tale of a stalker is often interpreted and appreciated by fans as a love song.
		Hillis, who is in his early 30s, describes his audience as "not so much the teen crowd" but more of the "independent, alternative [rock] people who seek" out the music.
	www.cliffhillis.com /press.htm (4520 words)

	Margaret Hillis (Choral Conductor) - Short Biography
		By the age of 8, Margaret Hillis knew what she wanted to be -- an orchestral conductor -- but, since the field was entirely male at the time -- she was advised (not entirely tactfully) to try her hand at choral conducting.
		For 37 years she was director laureate of this group, which came to be recognized as one of the world's great choral organizations, performing national and foreign tours, and winning nine Grammy awards, more than any comparable USA group.
		Hillis, who was 76 years old, died at Evanston Hospital of complications of lung cancer.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Bio/Hillis-Margaret.htm (331 words)

	Download Files from the Hillis/Bull Lab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Hillis, D. Misuse and modification of Nei's genetic distance.
		Hillis, D. Evolutionary genetics of the Andean lizard genus Pholidobolus (Sauria: Gymnophthalmidae): Phylogeny, biogeography, and a comparison of tree construction techniques.
		Hillis, D. Systematics of the Rana pipiens complex: Puzzle and paradigm.
	www.zo.utexas.edu /faculty/antisense/Download.html (1544 words)

	IT Conversations: Daniel Hillis
		Hillis discusses some of the development processes used at Applied Minds as well as the business problems inherent in letting projects go at version 1.0.
		Hillis closes the talk by discussing what he thinks is Applied Minds's most important software work, centered around his vision of the Internet and publishers' ability to tap into the aggregate data on the web and to remix and render that public data.
		Daniel Hillis is 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.
	www.itconversations.com /shows/detail449.html (489 words)

	Hillis
		For his PhD work, Hillis began the endeavor that has been his greatest contribution to science and humanity so far – his work on the Connection Machine, a massively parallel computer going far beyond any other computer system of the time in terms of its potential for artificial intelligence, simulation of complex physical systems.
		Of course, this approach to building AI presupposes that parallelism itself is something close to the chief ingredient of intelligence – that there is no further “secret sauce” required to make a mind come out of a distributed network of processors.
		Hillis holds some 40 U.S. patents--for disk arrays, forgery prevention methods, a color camera and various software and mechanical devices.
	www.goertzel.org /benzine/Hillis.htm (3391 words)

	Dr. David Hillis, U.T. Austin
		Hillis, D. Pollock, J. McGuire, and D. Zwickl.
		Hillis, D. The Tree of Life and the Grand Synthesis of biology.
		Hillis, D. Health applications of the Tree of Life.
	www.biosci.utexas.edu /IB/faculty/HILLIS.HTM (495 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 (988 words)

	Mack Hillis Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
		Mack Hillis was born on Tuesday, July 23, 1901, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
		Hillis was 23 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 13, 1924, with the New York Yankees.
		His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Mack Hillis baseball stats page.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=hillima01 (299 words)

	Hillis Family Crest
		The ancient roots of the Hillis family are in the Anglo-Saxon culture.
		The name Hillis comes from when the family lived as inhabitants in a house on a hill.
		In the Hillis coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/hillis-family-crest.htm?a=54323-224 (529 words)

	HILLIS Reunion
		Our family are descendents of Andrew "Jackson" HILLIS, born about 1815-1817 (KY/TN), and lived in and around the Giles County,Tenn. and Lauderdale County,Ala.
		As descendents have aged, and shifted in locality, it has become feasible to move the reunion to a more accessible area.
		HILLIS REUNION 2006 is scheduled for Saturday & Sunday, JUNE 17th & 18th,2006 (Father's Day weekend) at the TIRA COMMUNITY CENTER.
	pages.prodigy.net /hillis/_wsn/page3.html (371 words)

	W. Daniel Hillis - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Template:Inappropriate tone William Daniel Hillis, Ph.D. (born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) an American inventor, scientist, author and engineer.
		Co-founder Sheryl Handler (company president) and several technical leads from TMC founded Ab Initio, a company focusing on parallel computing for large data warehouses.
		There was a transition in the life of Thinking Machines, he observes, when it became less of an research and development shop and more of a real business – and at that point it became more and more difficult to move toward the goal of building real artificial intelligence.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/W._Daniel_Hillis (3162 words)

	Long Now: Projects: Clock
		The idea to build a monument scale, multi-millennial, all mechanical clock as an icon to long term thinking came from computer scientist Danny Hillis and was published in the form of an email to friends.
		With a sponsor for the first prototype and a new project manager, Danny Hillis began to design the first prototype of the 10,000 Year Clock.
		This prototype was completed in 01999 on new years eve where it bonged very slowly...
	www.longnow.org /projects/clock (1438 words)

	Leigh Bureau - W. Colston Leigh, Inc.
		Described as one of the great spirits of the computer industry, inventor, scientist, and computer designer Danny Hillis is cofounder, chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Applied Minds.
		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 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 (473 words)

	www.myspace.com/cliffhillis
		Delaware native Cliff Hillis performed with Baltimore's acclaimed power-pop trio Starbelly in the late '90s.
		He left that band in 2000 to focus on a solo career, releasing his first solo CD "Be Seeing You" on Not Lame Records in 2001.
		Hillis' songs have been included on the TV show "Good Girls Don't", which airs on the Oxygen cable network, on a forthcoming DVD release of the television show "Party of Five", and in the feature films "Enough" (2002) and "After Sex" (1999).
	www.myspace.com /cliffhillis (1027 words)

	Amazon.com: The Connection Machine (Artificial Intelligence): Books: W. Danny Hillis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The book is well written and features a host of interesting discussions by Hillis on related topics (such as general philosophy of parallel computing).
		It offers a preview of a parallel processing computer that Daniel Hillis and others are now developing to perform tasks that no conventional, sequential machine can solve in a reasonable time.
		W. Daniel Hillis is a founder of Thinking Machines Corporation where he is engaged in building connection machines as a significant step toward real thinking machines.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0262580977?v=glance (1081 words)

	Donald Hillis, Donald Hillis Realty & Auction Co.
		Donald Hillis Realty and Auction is a full service realty and auction company serving all of Middle Tennessee.
		From the Tennessee River in the west to the plateau in the east, we serve the entire mid-state area.
		Donald Hillis Realty and Auction company specializes in the sale of all types of real estate - residential, commercial, multi-family property, with an emphasis on farms and land.
	www.getitdoneauctions.com (292 words)

	J. HILLIS MILLER
		Fiorentino, Danielle and Scannavini, Anna, "Umanisti in rete: intervista con J. Hillis Miller," coma 8 (Summer, Autumn, 1996), 65-69.
		Dan, Shen, "On Certain Limitations of Stylistics as Seen in Contrast with the Analytical Models of David Lodge and J. Hillis Miller," Journal of Peking University, 91-97.
		Göbel, Walter, "Modelling J. Hillis Miller: Slippage of Identity or Continuity in Flux?," Anglistik, 6 (March 1995), 103-114.
	www.hydra.umn.edu /derrida/jhm.html (5318 words)

	CD Baby: CLIFF HILLIS: Be Seeing You - from evor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Cliff Hillis is one more great reason to empty your bowl.
		The first solo step for ex-Starbelly and still member of John Faye Powertrip, Cliff Hillis displays plaintively that he has a voice and songwriting style that is both classic and will not quit.
		Cliff Hillis is one more great reason to empty your bowl"-Audiogalaxy So, we're talking working the important archetypes of great pop music on this one, heartfelt emotions poured out amidst interminably catchy hooks, addictive sing-a-long choruses, impossibly lovely vocals by Hillis and punchy ringing guitars that land on smack dab on the letter "X" perfectly.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/notlame19/from/evor (309 words)

	Peyton Hillis - Football Recruiting
		Hillis earned all-conference and all-state honors as a junior.
		Hillis entertains his top four — 12/11/2003, from Rivals.com Football Recruiting
		Hillis names top six, has visits in mind — 9/3/2003, from Rivals.com Football Recruiting
	rivals100.rivals.com /viewprospect.asp?pr_key=17312 (543 words)

	Cross Stitch by Sue Hillis Designs
		The second annual Santa from Sue Hillis Designs - Santa is seen feeding his feathered friends.
		This little kitty is dreaming of catnip, fish, mice, a ball of yarn, a bowl of milk, a days spent chasing butterflies.
		A witch is cooking up a magical brew because she has lots of "Spells For Sale!" Model stitched on 28 Ct. Clay Cashel linen with DMC floss.
	www.123stitch.com /sue.html (3614 words)

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