Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine

[W. Daniel Hillis]

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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