W. Daniel Hillis Guest
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Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2006, 8:33 am EST Post subject: Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine |
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Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
by W. Daniel Hillis
Nobel prize winner physicist Richard Feynman played a critical role in developing the first parallel-processing computer and finding innovative uses for it in numerical computing and building neural networks as well as physical simulation with cellular-automata (such as turbulent fluid flow), working with Stephen Wolfram.
Originally published February 1989 in Physics Today. Published on KurzweilAI.net June 24, 2002.
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