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 of Marvin Minsky 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, the company that developed the Connection Machine family of massively parallel supercomputers. He was also vice president, research and development at Walt Disney Imagineering and a Disney Fellow.
Hillis is also a co-founder, with Stewart Brand, of the Long Now Foundation. Currently he is co-chairman and chief technology officer of Applied Minds, Inc., a consulting firm which he co-founded with stub. You can help BambooWeb by .
