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Speaker's Biography:
Danny Hillis
Co-Chairman and Chief Technology Officer, Applied Minds, Inc.
Danny Hillis is Co-Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Applied Minds, Inc., a research and development company creating a range of new products and services in software, entertainment, electronics, biotechnology and mechanical design. Considered a legendary designer of computer architecture, Hillis is an inventor, scientist, author and engineer. He pioneered the concept of parallel computers that is now the basis for most supercomputers. He holds over 50 U.S. patents, covering parallel computers, disk arrays, forgery prevention methods and various electronic and mechanical devices. Previously, he was vice president of research and development at Walt Disney Imagineering, co-founder of Thinking Machines Corp., and an adjunct professor at the MIT Media Lab. Hillis has also worked as a consultant to many companies developing technology-related business strategies, and has served on the Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from MIT.
Panel:
Dinner panel - The Long View: Imagining the Future »
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