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is musical education by studying with Nadia Boulanger, the legendary Parisian tutor to American expatriate composers such as Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copeland. To subsidize his studies he took a job with Barclay Disques, Mercury's French distributor. Among the artists he recorded in Europe were Charles A
his design. In 1988, continuing this research, Hillis received a PhD in EECS from MIT under doctoral advisers Gerald Jay Sussman, Marvin Minsky and Claude Shannon. Hillis co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation in 1983 while doing his doctoral work at MIT. The company was to develop Hillis' Connection Machi
rticulate, bright and prematurely worldly, had been an ardent memorizer and appreciator of Shakespeare, especially the mystical Tempest, the music of Aaron Copeland and Igor Stravinsky, the improvisations of Charlie Parker and Cannon Ball Adderley and the provocative literature of the time including Jack Kerouc’s
atrices are numerous and frequently appear in matrix algebra texts under the rubric of the Frobenius-Perron theorems. Using the entropy formalism of Claude Shannon as developed previously, Hy is computed as the sum across either of the identical rows of each probability times its logarithm, px /og(p.p2x/og(p2))
this design. In 1988, continuing this research, Hillis received a PhD in EECS from MIT under doctoral advisers Gerald Jay Sussman, Marvin Minsky and Claude Shannon. Hillis co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation in 1983 while doing his doctoral work at MIT. The company was to develop Hillis’ Connection Machine
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