William Daniel Hillis
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American computer scientist (born 1956)
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Vinony's link graph records 131 inbound references to William Daniel Hillis, and connects out to computer science, entrepreneurship and parallel computing.
It sits within the topics 1956 births, American transhumanists and Computer designers.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Daniel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Baltimore
- Sibling
- David Hillis
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Employer
- Applied Minds
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- ACM Fellow
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Claude Shannon
- Student of
- Richard Feynman
- Image
- Danny Hillis2.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1956-09-25
- Commons category
- W. Daniel Hillis
- birth name
- William Daniel Hillis
- member of
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Commons gallery
- W. Daniel Hillis
- archives at
- Computer History Museum
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- name in native language
- Danny Hillis
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1956 birthsAmerican transhumanistsComputer designersFellows of the Association for Computing MachineryGrace Murray Hopper Award laureatesLiving peopleMembers of the United States National Academy of EngineeringMIT Media Lab peopleMIT School of Science alumniWikimedia Foundation Advisory Board membersWriters from Baltimore