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Danny Hillis

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Also known as: William Daniel Hillis, Jr.
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William Daniel Hillis, Jr.
Born:
September 25, 1956, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. (age 67)
Founder:
Applied Invention
Applied Minds
Thinking Machines Corporation
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Danny Hillis (born September 25, 1956, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.) American pioneer of parallel processing computers and founder of Thinking Machines Corporation. The son of a U.S. Air Force epidemiologist, Hillis spent his early years traveling abroad with his family and being homeschooled. Like his father, he developed an interest in biology, while his mother nurtured his interest in mathematics. An inveterate tinkerer who invented with whatever was at hand, Hillis, at the age of nine, built his first “computer” out of a phonograph player; he later built a tick-tack-toe-playing computer out of Tinkertoys. The Hillis family returned to Baltimore in ...(100 of 696 words)

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