thinking machines corporation
1Thinking Machines — Corporation was a supercomputer manufacturer founded in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1982 by W. Daniel Danny Hillis and Sheryl Handler to turn Hillis s doctoral work at MIT on massively parallel computing architectures into a commercial product… …
2War in the Age of Intelligent Machines — (1991) is a book by Manuel de Landa that traces the history of warfare and of technology. It is influenced in part by Michel Foucault s Discipline and Punish (1978), and also reinterprets the concepts of war machines and the machinic phylum,… …
3W. Daniel Hillis — William Daniel Hillis Born September 25, 1956 (1956 09 25) (age 55) B …
4Hillis, Danny — ▪ American businessman Introduction in full William Daniel Hillis, Jr. born September 25, 1956, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. American pioneer of parallel processing computers and founder of Thinking Machines Corporation. Education The… …
5artificial intelligence — the capacity of a computer to perform operations analogous to learning and decision making in humans, as by an expert system, a program for CAD or CAM, or a program for the perception and recognition of shapes in computer vision systems. Abbr.:… …
6Wide area information server — Wide Area Information Servers or WAIS is a client server text searching system that uses the ANSI Standard Z39.50 Information Retrieval Service Definition and Protocol Specifications for Library Applications (Z39.50:1988) to search index… …
7supercomputer — /sooh peuhr keuhm pyooh teuhr, sooh peuhr keuhm pyooh teuhr/, n. a very fast, powerful mainframe computer, used in advanced military and scientific applications. [SUPER + COMPUTER] * * * Any of a class of extremely powerful digital computers. The …
8Sun Microsystems — Sun Microsystems, Inc. Logo used from the 1990s until acquisition by Oracle Former type Subsidiary Industry Computer systems Computer software Fate …
9Oracle Data Mining — (ODM) is an option of Oracle Corporation s Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) Enterprise Edition (EE). It contains several data mining and data analysis algorithms for classification, prediction, regression, classification,… …
10Superordinateur — à la NASA …
