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Danny Hillis
Computer Scientist
1956 –
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Who is Danny Hillis?
William Daniel "Danny" Hillis is an American inventor, scientist, engineer, entrepreneur, 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 Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work.
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- Born
- Sep 25, 1956
Baltimore - Also known as
- William Daniel Hillis
- W. Daniel Hillis
- W. Danny Hillis
- William Daniel Hillis II
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Doctorate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
EECS
( - 1988) - Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
EECS
( - 1981) - Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mathematics
( - 1978) - Keystone School
(1962 - 1964) - Lida Lee Tall Elementary School
(1966 - 1967)
- Doctorate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Employment
- Milton Bradley Company
(1978 - 1980) - Co-Founder, Thinking Machines Corporation
(1982 - 1994) - Adjunct Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1995 - 2000) - Co-Founder, Applied Minds
(2000 - ) - Vice President, Walt Disney Imagineering
(1995 - 2000) - Co-Founder, Metaweb Technologies, Inc.
- Research Professor of Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC
(2009 - ) - Research Professor of Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
(2009 - )
- Milton Bradley Company
- Lived in
- Los Angeles
- Copenhagen
- Bukavu
- Kolkata
- Cambridge
- Baltimore
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on July 23, 2013
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