The Connection Machine"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 Machine" is included in the Artificial Intelligence series, edited by Patrick Winston, Michael Brady, and Daniel Bobrow. |
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