caption doctoral_advisor birth_place nationality field work_institutions birth_date residence prizes image article_title name alma_mater
hillis in 2014 marvin minsky gerald jay sussman claude shannon baltimore , maryland , u.s. american computer science computer engineering thinking machines walt disney imagineering applied minds 25 september 1956 los angeles dan award -lrb- 1989 -rrb- david prize -lrb- 2002 -rrb- grace murray hopper danny hillis , 2014 -lrb- crop -rrb- . jpg danny hillis
 william daniel hillis massachusetts institute of technology
danny hillis

william daniel `` danny '' hillis -lrb- born september 25 , 1956 -rrb- is an american inventor , engineer , mathematician , 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 technologies , applied proteomics , and author of '' '' .
he is judge widney professor of engineering and medicine at the university of southern california .
