The Connection Machine

by W. Daniel Hillis

Series: MIT Press Series in Artificial Intelligence

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The Connection Machine describes a fundamentally different kind of computer. It offers a preview of a parallel processing computer that Daniel Hillis and others are now developing to perform tasks that no conventional, sequential machine can solve in a reasonable time. W. Daniel Hillis is a founder of Thinking Machines Corporation where he is engaged in building connection machines as a significant step toward real thinking machines. The Connection Machineis included in the Artificial Intelligence series, edited by Patrick Winston, Michael Brady, and Daniel Bobrow.… (more)

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The Connection Machine describes a fundamentally different kind of computer. It offers a preview of a parallel processing computer that Daniel Hillis and others are now developing to perform tasks that no conventional, sequential machine can solve in a reasonable time. W. Daniel Hillis is a founder of Thinking Machines Corporation where he is engaged in building connection machines as a significant step toward real thinking machines. The Connection Machineis included in the Artificial Intelligence series, edited by Patrick Winston, Michael Brady, and Daniel Bobrow.

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