The Connection Machine (Artificial Intelligence)

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.W. Danny Hillis is the author of 'The Connection Machine (Artificial Intelligence)', published 1989 under ISBN 9780262580977 and ISBN 0262580977.