Description:Chapters: Ward Cunningham, Mitch Kapor, W. Daniel Hillis, Benjamin Mako Hill, Clay Shirky, Angela Beesley Starling, Jay Rosen, Heather Ford, Erin Mckean, Peter Suber, Rebecca Mackinnon, Ethan Zuckerman, Raoul Weiler. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 59. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer designed by Hillis at MIT. He is also co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, Applied Minds, Metaweb, and author of The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work. Daniel Hillis was born in Baltimore, Maryland during 1956. His father was a US Air Force epidemiologist studying hepatitis in Africa and relocated with his family through Rwanda, Burundi, Zaire, and Kenya. He spent a brief part of his childhood in Calcutta, India when his father was a visiting faculty at ISI, Calcutta. During these years the young Hillis was home schooled by his mother, a biostatistician, and developed an early appreciation for mathematics and biology. During 1978 Hillis graduated from MIT with a BS degree in mathematics, followed in 1981 with an MS degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), specializing in robotics. During this time Hillis worked at the MIT Logo Laboratory developing computer hardware and software for children. He designed computer-oriented toys and games for the Milton Bradley Company, and co-founded Terrapin Software a producer of computer software for elementary schools. He also built a digital computer composed of Tinkertoys that is on display at the Museum of Science, Boston. Hillis' major research, however, was int...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=328908We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board Members: Ward Cunningham, Mitch Kapor, W. Daniel Hillis, Benjamin Mako Hill, Clay Shirky. To get started finding Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board Members: Ward Cunningham, Mitch Kapor, W. Daniel Hillis, Benjamin Mako Hill, Clay Shirky, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
60
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1155298810
Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board Members: Ward Cunningham, Mitch Kapor, W. Daniel Hillis, Benjamin Mako Hill, Clay Shirky
Description: Chapters: Ward Cunningham, Mitch Kapor, W. Daniel Hillis, Benjamin Mako Hill, Clay Shirky, Angela Beesley Starling, Jay Rosen, Heather Ford, Erin Mckean, Peter Suber, Rebecca Mackinnon, Ethan Zuckerman, Raoul Weiler. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 59. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer designed by Hillis at MIT. He is also co-founder of the Long Now Foundation, Applied Minds, Metaweb, and author of The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work. Daniel Hillis was born in Baltimore, Maryland during 1956. His father was a US Air Force epidemiologist studying hepatitis in Africa and relocated with his family through Rwanda, Burundi, Zaire, and Kenya. He spent a brief part of his childhood in Calcutta, India when his father was a visiting faculty at ISI, Calcutta. During these years the young Hillis was home schooled by his mother, a biostatistician, and developed an early appreciation for mathematics and biology. During 1978 Hillis graduated from MIT with a BS degree in mathematics, followed in 1981 with an MS degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), specializing in robotics. During this time Hillis worked at the MIT Logo Laboratory developing computer hardware and software for children. He designed computer-oriented toys and games for the Milton Bradley Company, and co-founded Terrapin Software a producer of computer software for elementary schools. He also built a digital computer composed of Tinkertoys that is on display at the Museum of Science, Boston. Hillis' major research, however, was int...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=328908We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board Members: Ward Cunningham, Mitch Kapor, W. Daniel Hillis, Benjamin Mako Hill, Clay Shirky. To get started finding Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board Members: Ward Cunningham, Mitch Kapor, W. Daniel Hillis, Benjamin Mako Hill, Clay Shirky, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.