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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
ased), Francis Crick, Richard Feynman, Jonas Salk, Eva Zeisel, Louis I. Kahn, Charles Eames, Frank Stanton and Schuyler van Renssalaer Cammann, and Arnold Toynbee. There are many others. The only two bosses he had who didn't fire him were Lou Kahn and Charlie Eames. As a result, Wurman has had many lives: as
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
gn is like placing marbles (or boulders) in particular ways, to direct movements and flows as you might guide water with a canal. The great historian Arnold Toynbee once recalled a passing moment with British Prime Minister Lloyd George during the endless (and disastrous) Paris Peace Conference of 1919. “Lloyd Ge
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 →ceased), Francis Crick, Richard Feynman, Jonas Salk, Eva Zeisel, Louis I. Kahn, Charles Eames, Frank Stanton and Schuyler van Renssalaer Cammann, and Arnold Toynbee. There are many others. The only two bosses he had who didn’t fire him were Lou Kahn and Charlie Eames. As aresult, Wurman has had many lives: as an
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