William Daniel Hillis (born September 25, 1956) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and computer scientist, who pioneered parallel computers and their...
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Hillis is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Hillis Hadjo (c. 1770–1818), a leader of the Red Stick rebellion of the...
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28 July 2009. Hillis 1989a - Text of Daniel Hillis' Physics Today article on Feynman and the Connection machine; also a video of Hillis *How I met Feynman...
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computer scientist W. Daniel Hillis, and his sister is Argye E. Hillis, a professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins University. In 1980 Hillis graduated from...
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Nelson "Bill" Joy 1987 John Ousterhout 1988 Guy L. Steele Jr. 1989 W. Daniel Hillis 1990 Richard Stallman 1991 Feng-hsiung Hsu 1992 no award 1993 Bjarne...
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Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1983 by Sheryl Handler and W. Daniel "Danny" Hillis to turn Hillis's doctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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studies was artificial intelligence; he studied under Marvin Minsky and W. Daniel Hillis. After graduation, he joined the Thinking Machines team, where he was...
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Metcalfe, Shafi Goldwasser, Guy L. Steele, Jr., Richard Stallman, and W. Daniel Hillis Textbook authors Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman, Richard Stallman...
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friend and colleague Danny Hillis why Hillis appeared so sad. Hillis replied that he thought Feynman was going to die soon. Hillis quotes Feynman as replying:...
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the Stone: The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work is a book by W. Daniel Hillis, published in 1998 by Basic Books (ISBN 0-465-02595-1). The book attempts...
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arXiv:1905.07527. doi:10.1080/17445760.2019.1608990. ISSN 1744-5760. W. Daniel Hillis (February 1989). "Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine". Physics...
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@ 10pm *. Discovery Networks. 2012-02-23. Retrieved 2012-02-25. Levine, Daniel S (2012-01-20). "'Mythbusters' hosts to launch new Discovery series 'Unchained...
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geologist/biologist Stephen Jay Gould physicist Alan Guth inventor W. Daniel Hillis theoretical psychologist Nicholas Humphrey geneticist Steve Jones biologist...
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on 'Special Relativity: Why Cant You Go Faster Than Light?' by W. Daniel Hillis; Hillis Responds". Edge.org. Edge Foundation, Inc. Archived from the original...
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Memo 1575, March 1996. "Amorphous Computing", Harold Abelson, Don Allen, Daniel Coore, Chris Hanson, George Homsy, Thomas F. Knight, Jr., Radhika Nagpal...
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Robert C. Berwick Duane S. Boning Louis D. Braida Rodney A. Brooks Vincent W. S. Chan Anantha P. Chandrakasan Paul E. Gray (S.B. 1954, S.M. 1955, Ph.D...
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Steven Severin, English bass player, songwriter, and producer 1956 – W. Daniel Hillis, American computer scientist, engineer, and author, founded the Thinking...
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Roger Highfield, W. Daniel Hillis, Donald D. Hoffman, Gerald Holton, Bruce Hood, Nicholas Humphrey, Jennifer Jacquet, Xeni Jardin, Daniel Kahneman, Kevin...
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Radiation Measurements of an Intermediate Energy Free Electron Laser 1985 W. Daniel Hillis, The Connection Machine 1985 Stephen P. Boyd, Volterra Series: Engineering...
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his peers as verging on philistinism. In Shirky's defense, inventor W. Daniel Hillis asserted that, although books "were created to serve a purpose", that...
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Research Center 2001 Jack J. Dongarra The University of Tennessee 2001 W. Daniel Hillis Applied Minds, LLC. 2001 Ray Kurzweil Kurzweil Technologies, Inc. 2001...
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December 14, 2010 US Patent 20110053131 A1 Patrice M. Regnier, W. Daniel Hillis (inventors) "Systems and Methods for Choreographing Movement"...
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Bethel. University of Southern California Principal Investigator: W. Daniel Hillis, Scientific Investigator: David Agus. City of Hope project on Information...
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machines develop a drive for self-preservation. Computer scientist W. Daniel Hillis states "Humans might be seen as minor annoyances, like ants at a picnic"...
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1997, the University of Glasgow awarded Hillis a personal chair in cardiology and exercise medicine. In 1970 Hillis became the team doctor for Clydebank...
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of their projects involves the construction of a clock, designed by W. Daniel Hillis, intended to keep time for 10,000 years. The first prototype of the...
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New York: Pearson. pp. 56–65. ISBN 978-0134093413. Hillis, David M.; Sadava, David; Hill, Richard W.; Price, Mary V. (2014). "Carbon and molecular diversity...
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Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (September 26, 1827 – April 10, 1897) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Indiana from...
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Herpetologica. 65 (2): 136–153. doi:10.1655/09-009R1.1. S2CID 55147982. Hillis & Wilcox (2005), Hillis (2007), Stuart (2008), Pauly et al. (2009), AmphibiaWeb (2016)...
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Hannan Conrad Kenneth Harper Juris Hartmanis Wayne A. Hendrickson W. Daniel Hillis Melvin Hochster Stephen Taylor Holmes Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Tony Hunter...
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