engineer, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine,

founders of the field of cognitive science; Danny Hillis, the American inventor, engineer, mathematician, entrepreneur, and author, who co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer designed by Hillis at MIT; and Seth Lloyd, principal investigator at the

founders of the field of cognitive science; Danny Hillis, the American inventor, engineer, mathematician, entrepreneur, and author, who co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer designed by Hillis at MIT; and Seth Lloyd, principal investigator at the

designed a massively parallel computer with 64,000 processors. He named it the Connection Machine and founded what may have been the first Al company—Thinking Machines Corporation—to produce and market it. This was despite a lunch he had with Richard Feynman, at which the celebrated physicist remarked, “That is positively the d

designed a massively parallel computer with 64,000 processors. He named it the Connection Machine and founded what may have been the first Al company—Thinking Machines Corporation—to produce and market it. This was despite a lunch he had with Richard Feynman, at which the celebrated physicist remarked, “That is positively the d