W. Daniel Hillis

W. Daniel Hillis

male, 53 years old
inventor, computer, computer pioneer, Long Now Foundation, parallel, parallel computing…ConnectionMachine
William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded...
Karl Sims

Karl Sims

male
Computer graphics professional, Panspermia, ConnectionMachine, artificial evolution, Connection Machine 2, MIT
Karl Sims is a computer graphics artist and researcher, who is most well known for using particle systems and artificial life in computer...
Charles E. Leiserson

Charles E. Leiserson

male
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty, Yale University, Ph.D., Association for Computing Machinery, Akamai Technologies…ConnectionMachine
Charles is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT, member of the Theory of Computation research group in the MIT Computer Science and...
Philip Emeagwali

Philip Emeagwali

male, 55 years old
computer scientist, IMF, United States dollar, supercomputer, search engines, ConnectionMachine
Philip Emeagwali is a Nigerian-born computer scientist/geologist who was one of two winners of the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, a prize from the IEEE,...
Steve Omohundro

Steve Omohundro

male, 50 years old
Thinking Machines, NEC Research Institute, University of California, Berkeley, ConnectionMachine, *Lisp, Cellular automatists…Machine learning researcher
Stephen M. Omohundro (1959 -) is a computer scientist. He graduated from Stanford University with degrees in Physics and Mathematics. He received a...

Ken Batcher

male
University of Illinois, Computer Architect, Thinking Machines, supercomputer, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer, Danny Hillis…ConnectionMachine
Ken Batcher is a professor of Computer Science at Kent State University. He also worked as a computer architect at Goodyear Aerospace in Akron,...