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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
year per year for my entire life. I think it is time for us to start a long- term project that gets people thinking past the mental barrier of the Millennium. I would like to propose a large (think Stonehenge) mechanical clock, powered by seasonal temperature changes. It ticks once a year, bongs once a
rapidly diminishing explanatory returns from increasingly explicit microfoundations. [Wright 2009] And a shorter one from Von Neumann, reported by Claude Shannon: "My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it 'information', but the word was overly used, so I decided to call it 'uncertaint
to prevent alternate vortex shedding (similar vanes can usually be seen on tall steel chimneys). More recently a similar problem occurred with the Millennium footbridge near St Paul's in London. This time the vibrations were induced in the bridge by pedestrians. In this case the pedestrians started movem
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
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017542 →s of conflict, malaria eradication, clean water and efforts to restore the Gulf Coast (post-Katrina). Philanthropic partners include Malaria No More, Millennium Promise, and R&B singer Usher’s New Look Foundation. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017545 --- PAGE BREAK --- MARY JORDAN Mary Catherine Jordan (born November 10
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