is, 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 MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics, and the

s, 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 MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics, and the

d of Tinkertoys that is on display at the Museum of Science, Boston. Hillis' major research, however, was into parallel computing. Hillis designed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer; in 1983 Hillis co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation to produce and market supercomputers based on this design. In 1