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 Danny Hillis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hillis' biggest stab at fame and fortune was Thinking Machines Inc., a firm that lasted 11 years, created the world’s best parallel computing hardware, yet failed to either create a thinking computer program or make Hillis fabulously wealthy.
Hillis is interested in unconventional theoretical computers such as parallel computers, which might be far more powerful than conventional ones.
Hillis’ Connection Machine was an elegant compromise, the nature of which changed over time as computer hardware technology evolved.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/W._Daniel_Hillis

  
 Edge: W. DANIEL HILLIS
DANIEL (Danny) 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.
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

  
 The Pattern on the Stone by Daniel Hillis (kottke.org)
Hillis also describes a tinkertoy computer he built, which is kind of amusing.
The Pattern on the Stone by Daniel Hillis
The Pattern on the Stone by Daniel Hillis (kottke.org)
www.kottke.org /02/07/the-pattern-on-the-stone-by-daniel-hillis

  
 The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines
Hillis and Handler called their new company Thinking Machines because, says Hillis, "we wanted a dream we weren't going to outgrow." As it turned out, there was never much danger of that.
Hillis, Minsky, and Handler pitched the idea to Paley and CBS president Fred Stanton in a meeting to which Hillis wore his customary jeans and T-shirt.
Hillis and Handler (Minsky quickly became a figurehead at the company) wanted to design a machine strictly along the lines of Hillis's thesis, a machine that would have its maximum impact as a research tool for scientists studying artificial intelligence.
www.inc.com /magazine/19950915/2622.html

  
 The future of Java technology: Are you ready for the 10,000-year clock?
Hillis joined in on the discussion, adding "biological systems just assume that everything is broken and needs fixing; however, mechanical systems assume that a unit, once created, is a success and replicate it in a step-and-repeat process.
Hillis, a renaissance person who works as a chemist, biologist, engineer, and imagineer, led the audience through the design process he has undertaken to create a clock that will keep accurate time for 10,000 years.
Hillis then looked at his design requirements and noted that they are the same requirements a Java developer should consider.
www.javaworld.com /javaone99/j1-99-wedkeynote_p.html

  
 NPR : DANIEL HILLIS is one of the world's leading computer scientists and is the designer of the wor...
DANIEL HILLIS is one of the world's leading computer scientists and is the designer of the world's fastest computer.
DANIEL HILLIS is one of the world's leading computer scientists and is the designer of the wor...
NPR : DANIEL HILLIS is one of the world's leading computer scientists and is the designer of the wor...
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 Whole Earth: The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work
Hillis is the devisor and developer of massive parallel processing, which runs the current generation of supercomputers and lately employs the Net for distributed supercomputing in modest machines.
What a relief, then, to have Danny Hillis stroll with us through the basics, pointing out the simple things that continue to pertain decade after decade at the heart of these ambitious machines.
He writes with authority and clarity both about the basics (he once made a working computer of Tinker Toys) and about what is coming as computers learn to generate capabilities the equal of ours, and beyond.
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 Home :: 100cia.com
Hillis nos explica como remedar los árboles de decisiones con los circuitos básicos que se comportan como las funciones booleanas Y y O. Nos muestra como es posible construir esas mismas puertas lógicas mecánicamente con muelles y varillas.
Hillis aborda métodos generales de compresión de textos, imágenes y sonidos.
Hillis aquí nos cuenta de primera mano como se inspiró en los procesos cerebrales para el diseño de máquinas paralelas.
www.100cia.com /libros/magia_en_la_piedra_l005.html

  
 Pattern on the Stone : The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work by Daniel Hillis
Computer wizard Daniel Hillis has written a much needed guide to the world of computers and how they work.
Known as "The Genius" who helped developed the modern super computer, DANIEL HILLIS is one of the hottest computer scientists today.
Daniel Hillis proceeds from an outline of basic logic to clear descriptions of programming languages, algorithms, and memory.
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 Edge: "ARISTOTLE " (THE KNOWLEDGE WEB)
DANIEL (Danny) HILLIS is currently Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Applied Minds, Inc., is best known for his innovative work in the design and implementation of the massively parallel supercomputer.
Hillis' tutor is great for the adult student who really cares about physics, but most children are not trying to understand physics, they are trying to understand why someone is making them take physics.
Hillis' tutor would do that and therefore it might actually be consulted by students.
www.edge.org /3rd_culture/hillis04/hillis04_index.html

  
 W. Daniel Hillis(Features)
Daniel Hillis is trying to evolve a thinking machine--a Faustian vision if there ever was one.
The holder of thirty-four US patents and editor of scientific journals; Artificial Life, Complexity, Complex Systems, and Future Generation Computer Systems, his current research is on evolution and parallel learning algorithms.
www.utne.com /pub/1999_67/features/445-1.html

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work (Science Masters Series)
Hillis thinks that we may not be able to design a true artificial intelligence because we may not ever be able to understand how our own decentralized brains work.
Daniel Hillis has made a career of puzzling over the nature of information and the mechanisms that put information to use.
Hillis has crafted a beautiful book, one that provides excellent insight into the workings of computer technology, and a slightly different approach to that taken by standard textbooks.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465025951?v=glance

  
 Digerati: The Genius: w. Daniel Hillis
DANNY HILLIS is vice president of research and development at the Walt Disney Company and a Disney Fellow.
His interest in building gadgets and games was, to some degree, influenced by his friend, the late physicist Richard Feynman, who would leave Caltech in the summer to go to Cambridge to work for Danny at Thinking Machines.
www.edge.org /digerati/hillis/index.html

  
 danny hillis - Articles about danny hillis
Hillis explains that a parallel computer with 64,000 processors is easier to program than one with 100 processors.
Esther Dyson, EDventure Holdings: Danny Hillis founded Thinking Machines some years ago with the goal of creating a computer that could he proud of......
It was Danny Hillis's idea to build a clock that would tick once a year, tock once a century and gong every millennium.
www.wordiq.com /article/danny+hillis.html

  
 Evolutionary Computing Case-Studies
For example, in Case Study 1, we will observe how Daniel Hillis used a Genetic Algorithm approach to test a new kind of computer that he had developed (the 'Connection Machine').
This first case-study looks at Daniel Hillis's use of a genetic algorithm model to explore an abstract problem in computer science (sorting networks).
Hillis got into using biological models because it helped with his computer science aims.
www.mdx.ac.uk /www/psychology/cog/psy3260/evolution.htm

  
 The Connection Machine - The MIT Press
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.
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.
The Connection Machine is included in the Artificial Intelligence series, edited by Patrick Winston, Michael Brady, and Daniel Bobrow.
mitpress.mit.edu /catalog/item?sid=BAEB210E-2A42-4326-B6C8-E88CC7C01850&ttype=2&tid=5558

  
 pattern
Despite the subtitle of his book, Daniel Hillis admits that computers are so complicated, in the number of components that comprise them, and so intricate in the way the myriad components interact, that today's computers strain the limits of our engineering methods (p.
Hillis sees the Internet as an evolving, monstrously parallel computer system which may have more power than anyone has ever dreamed of, once all of the connected computers are coordinated to work together.
Evolving artificial intelligence will be considerably more challenging than producing a card-sorting program, but Hillis maintains that it is possible.
cla.uconn.edu /reviews/pattern.html

  
 eBay - Book: The Pattern on the Stone
The Pattern on the Stone by Daniel Hillis, W. Daniel...
In this welcome volume, computer wizard Daniel Hillis offers an easy-to-follow clarification of data processing that makes the computer seem as basic as a bicycle.
Hillis proceeds from a rundown of basic logic to clear descriptions of what programming languages, algorithms, and memory are.
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 Doors of Perception:Books
Designer of the world’s fastest computer W. Daniel Hillis sets out to explain how computers work, in language that anyone can understand.
Hillis demystifies his subject, explaining programming languages, algorithms and memory before tackling today’s most intriguing developments: quantum computing, parallel computing, neural networks and self-organising systems.
The book succeeds because, fortunately, the complex operations of computers can be broken down into a few simple parts that perform the same procedures over and over again.
www.doorsofperception.com /Books/details/16

  
 Engaging the Third Culture: Johnson, Phillip
According to Daniel Hillis, "Many of the scientists who write popular books do so because there are certain kinds of ideas that have absolutely no way of getting published within the scientific community."
In the much-hyped field of complexity, we find Murray Gell-Mann, Stuart Kauffman, Christopher Langton, J. Doyne Farmer, and Daniel Hillis.
In consciousness studies there is the fabled Marvin Minsky, along with Roger Schank, Daniel Dennett, Nicholas Humphrey, and the mathematician Roger Penrose.
www.arn.org /docs/johnson/brockman.htm

  
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These include Marvin Minsky, Hans Moravec, Ray Kurzweil and W. Daniel Hillis.
The bricks were made by Henry Hillis, a brother-in-law of Mr.
WD Hillis: "Intelligence as an Emergent Behavior; or, The Songs of Eden.
www.knolix.com /a/W._Daniel_Hillis.htm

  
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 Buch: Daniel Hillis: Computerlogik - So einfach arbeiten Computer. Buchkritik
Daniel Hillis, einer der weltweit führenden Computerwissenschaftler, hat nicht nur den schnellsten Computer entwickelt, sondern auch den langsamsten (aus Holz und Metall!).
Ohne das übliche Hightech-Sonderidiom kommt Daniel Hillis in seiner Darstellung der grundlegenden Funktionsprinzipien des Computers aus und macht doch sehr anschaulich, was diese scheinbar so komplexe Maschine eigentlich ist: ein Gerät, das nur eine einzige Operation - die Unterscheidung zwischen zwei Signalen - ausführt, diese allerdings unendlich oft.
Daniel Hillis baute seinen ersten Roboter bereits als Kind.
www.literaturkritiken.de /buch/seiten/001/computerlogik.php

  
 Reloade » Journal: W. Daniel Hillis view of the Knowledge Web (Aristotle)
Daniel Hillis titled, "Aristotle", in which he proposes "The Knowledge Web".
Daniel Hillis view of the Knowledge Web (Aristotle)
Reloade » Journal: W. Daniel Hillis view of the Knowledge Web (Aristotle)
www.reloade.com.au /main/4.0/entries/archives/2004/07/002669.php

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work (Science Masters S.)
Starting with an account of how computers are built and why they work, W. Daniel Hillis describes what they can and cannot do -- at the present time - before explaining how a computer can surpass its programmer and, finally, where humanity has reached in its quest for a true Thinking Machine.
Hillis covers almost all aspects of computing in this text but without being too specific to the technicalities to each area.
It would be an ideal text for anyone about to study computing/computer science courses at uni or college, as it lays down the foundations nicely.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0753812622

  
 Citations: Data Parallel Algorithms - Hillis, Steele (ResearchIndex)
W Daniel Hillis and Jr Guy L Steele.
Hillis, W., and Steele, G. Data parallel algorithms.
Hillis, G. Steele Jr., Data Parallel Algorithm," Communications of tte ACM 29 (December 1986): 1170 1183.
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /context/31218/0

  
 CFP 2004 / Computer Freedom & Privacy Conference
As a student, he studied artificial intelligence with Marvin Minsky and W. Daniel Hillis.
Daniel J. Gervais is the Oslers Professor of Technology Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa (Common Law Section).
Daniel Benoliel, JSD candidate and John M. Olin Fellow, University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of law.
www.cfp2004.org /program/speakers.html

  
 Academic Integrity and Sponsored Research: Wednesday, July 07, 2004
In 1983, W. Daniel Hillis was a graduate student at M.I.T. There, he invented the technology eventually patented under US Patent No. 5,212,773, entitled Wormhole Communications Arrangement for Massively Parallel Processor (‘773 patent).
[FN3] M.I.T. wrote to Hillis, stating that it would waive its right to the invention if the patent application was amended to recite that the government had a royalty-free license to the invention.
[FN4] The Navy wrote to Hillis that it also was willing to authorize Hillis to retain ownership of the ‘773 patent if he would sign forms that granted the government a royalty-free license.
academicintegrity.blogspot.com /2004_07_07_academicintegrity_archive.html

  
 EP patents invented by Hillis, Daniel W
The following 3 patents mentions "Hillis, Daniel W" as inventor:
Method and apparatus for simulating m- dimension connection networks in an n- dimension network where m is less than n.
gauss.bacon.su.se /indices/inventor/hillisdanielw

  
 DBLP: W. Daniel Hillis
Daniel Hillis, Bradley C. Kuszmaul, Margaret A. St. Pierre, David S. Wells, Monica C. Wong, Shaw-Wen Yang, Robert Zak : The Network Architecture of the Connection Machine CM-5 (Extended Abstract).
Daniel Hillis, Bradley C. Kuszmaul, Margaret A. St. Pierre, David S. Wells, Monica C. Wong-Chan, Shaw-Wen Yang, Robert Zak : The Network Architecture of the Connection Machine CM-5.
Daniel Hillis, Washington Taylor IV : Exploiting Symmetry in High-Dimensional Finite Difference Calculations.
www.vldb.org /dblp/db/indices/a-tree/h/Hillis:W=_Daniel.html

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