Danny Hillis

William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer designed by Hillis at MIT. He is also co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, Applied Minds, Metaweb, and author of The...

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  • Sep 25, 1956

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  • William Daniel Hillis,
  • W. Daniel Hillis,
  • W. Danny Hillis

Companies Founded

Metaweb Technologies, Inc.

Metaweb Technologies, Inc., builds infrastructure for Web application developers and publishers. Based in San Francisco, Metaweb was spun out of Applied Minds, Inc., in July...

Applied Minds

Applied Minds Inc. is a company founded in 2000 by ex-Disney Imagineers Danny Hillis and Bran Ferren that provides technology, design, R&D;, and consulting services to...

Thinking Machines

Thinking Machines Corporation was a supercomputer manufacturer founded in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1982 by W. Daniel "Danny" Hillis and Sheryl Handler to turn Hillis's...

Long Now Foundation

The Long Now Foundation, established in 1996, is a private organization that seeks to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution. It aims to provide a...

Terrapin Software

Logo is an easy-to-understand computer language that makes learning fun. Using a turtle, Logo makes it easy to break a big project into small parts and then solve each part...

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