Danny Hillis

W. 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.

Danny Hillis built a computer that played tic-tac-toe made of tinkertoys while a student at MIT. This accomplishment was mentioned obliquely in K. Eric Drexler's book Engines of Creation. 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 is also the cofounder, with Stewart Brand, of the Long Now Foundation.

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