Hillis, Danny (William Daniel, II) oral history

Type

Text

Title

Hillis, Danny (William Daniel, II) oral history

Contributor

Hendrie, Gardner, Interviewer

Hillis, W. Daniel, Interviewee

Spicer, Dag, Editor

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Date

2008-09-05

Place of Publication

Glendale, California

Extent

45 p.

Description

In the interview, Danny Hillis discusses his early childhood influences and interest in science and electronics. He then describes his work at MIT under various leading professors of the day. Finally, Hillis discusses some of the engineering tradeoffs and development goals of the Connection Machine, the massively parallel computer system he designed in the early 1980s.

Subject

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Minsky, Marvin; Logo (Software); Papert, Seymour; Shannon, Claude; Morrison, Phillip; Lettvin, Jerry; Winograd, Terry; Amdahl’s Law; DARPA; Arpanet; Sussman, Gerry; Greenblatt, Richard; Kay, Alan; Dynabook; Feynman, Richard; Bell, Gordon; Clayton, Richard J.; Connection Machine; CM-1; CM-2

Collection Title

Oral Histories Online

Accession Number

102702101

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