HILLIS, DANNY

born September 25, 1956, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. in full William Daniel Hillis, Jr. American pioneer of parallel processing computers and founder of Thinking Machines Corporation. Michael Aaron Dennis Additional reading Cathy Lazere and Dennis Shasha, Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists (1995; reissued 1998), primarily focuses on the scientists' contributions, such as Hillis's work on the Connection Machine, but includes some biographical information.