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m MIT under doctoral advisers Gerald Jay Sussman, Marvin Minsky and Claude Shannon. Hillis co-founded Thinking M
neur, 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 Technologies, Applied Proteomics, and author of The Pattern on the
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017542 →Hillis’ Connection Machine design into commercial parallel supercomputers, and to explore computational pathways to building artificial intelligence. Hillis’ ambitions are represented by the company’s motto: “We’re building a machine that will be proud of us,” and Hillis’ parallel architecture was to be t
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017542 →, and as we doit, machines will be more and more like people. It will be a gradual process, and that’s been happening. This is not so different from Marvin Minsky’s Society of Mind theory, which holds that mind is a collection of agents, each one taking care of a particular aspect of intelligence, and communicati
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017542 →, Technology, Consciousness, and Culture at Princeton University. He is co-author (with Brian Christian) of Algorithms to Live By. W. Daniel “Danny” Hillis is an inventor, entrepreneur, and computer scientist, Judge Widney Professor of Engineering and Medicine at USC, and author of The Pattern on the Sto
ct with any precision when such a development might occur.” e You're just a Luddite. It’s an odd definition of Luddite that includes Turing, Wiener, Minsky, Musk, and Gates, who rank among the most prominent contributors to technological progress in the 20th and 21st centuries.* Furthermore, the epithet
g organized by Heinz Pagels, the president of the New York Academy of Sciences. I had a seat at the table alongside the leaders of the 1“ generation, Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy, the 2"! generation, Edward Feigenbaum 13 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016816 and Roger Schank, and Joseph Traub, head of the National Superc
, Technology, Consciousness, and Culture at Princeton University. He is co-author (with Brian Christian) of Algorithms to Live By. W. Daniel “Danny” Hillis is an inventor, entrepreneur, and computer scientist, Judge Widney Professor of Engineering and Medicine at USC, and author of The Pattern on the Sto
ct with any precision when such a development might occur.” e You're just a Luddite. It’s an odd definition of Luddite that includes Turing, Wiener, Minsky, Musk, and Gates, who rank among the most prominent contributors to technological progress in the 20th and 21st centuries.* Furthermore, the epithet
g organized by Heinz Pagels, the president of the New York Academy of Sciences. I had a seat at the table alongside the leaders of the 1“ generation, Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy, the 2"! generation, Edward Feigenbaum 13 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016233 and Roger Schank, and Joseph Traub, head of the National Superc
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short drive over the Hollywood Hills from Los Angeles, and headed off for rural Texas for a few days that would largely defined by rock and dynamite. Hillis, who was born in 1956, has spent most of his life working at the electron level of the world, crafting some of the most significant computer processi
ons of a human mind,” Hillis wrote at the start of his PhD thesis a few years later. “A thinking machine.”188 What Hillis and others like his mentor Marvin Minsky, realized was that the human brain works differently than machine logic. Life, after all, is not a series of linear math problems. (Much as we might
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