author : W. Daniel Hillis

Books

• The Connection Machine. 1985
• The Pattern on the Stone. 1998

Short works

• The Connection Machine: a computer architecture based on Cellular Automata. 1984. (In [Cellular Automata] )
• Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine. 1989. (In Feynman and Computation )
• Co-Evolving Parasites Improve Simulated Evolution as an Optimization Procedure. 1990
  • In Artificial Life II
  • In Emergent Computation
• Close to the singularity. 1995. (In The Third Culture )
• The Clock. 2000. (In The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years )
• The idea that we should all share our most dangerous ideas. 2006. (In What is Your Dangerous Idea? )

Books : reviews

W. Daniel Hillis.
The Connection Machine.
MIT Press. 1985

(read but not reviewed)

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.
The Pattern on the Stone.
Phoenix. 1998

Computers can be mystifying, but this book helps to demystlfy them with its clear explanations and colourful anecdotes. After explaining how computers work, W. Daniel Hillis outlines some of the most exciting developments in computing, including quantum computers, and looks forward to computers that are truly intelligent.