The Connection Machine

The Connection Machine describes a fundamentally different kind of computer. It offers a preview of a parallel processing computer that Daniel Hillis and others are now developing to perform tasks that no conventional, sequential machine can solve in a reasonable time.

The Connection Machine describes a fundamentally different kind of computer. It offers a preview of a parallel processing computer that Daniel Hillis and others are now developing to perform tasks that no conventional, sequential machine can solve in a reasonable time.

W. Daniel Hillis is a founder of Thinking Machines Corporation where he is engaged in building connection machines as a significant step toward real thinking machines. The Connection Machine is included in the Artificial Intelligence series, edited by Patrick Winston, Michael Brady, and Daniel Bobrow.

Review text:

'This wonderfully lucid book describes what history may judge to be the second state in the evolution of digital computers.'

-- Marvin Minsky, MIT

'The presentation is excellent. As in the best of crime novels, the reader is made to become more and more curious as to how the central problem of the machine design will be solved I will refrain from giving any clues to the answer - it would spoil the suspense for future readers.'

-- A. M. Andrew, Robotics

'The Connection Machine will be appreciated by those who require a lucid description of a computer design that is truly ingenious.'

-- Igor Aleksander, Nature