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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 →e project led directly to the founding of the Long Now Foundation in 1996 by Hillis and others, including Stewart Brand, Brian Eno, Esther Dyson, and Mitch Kapor. Hillis asserts that parallelism itself is approximately the main ingredient of intelligence; that there is not anything else required to make a min
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017542 →ur, 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
project led directly to the founding of the Long Now Foundation in 1996 by Hillis and others, including Stewart Brand, Brian Eno, Esther Dyson, and Mitch Kapor. Hillis asserts that parallelism itself is approximately the main ingredient of intelligence; that there is not anything else required to make a m
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
and the group of tinkerers, thinkers, and engineers who had backed and designed the clock - people such as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, spreadsheet inventor Mitch Kapor or investor Esther Dyson - were planning on a project that would stretch as close to eternity as they felt reasonable. “The Clock of the Long Now” th
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