FORA.tv Speaker - Danny Hillis

Danny Hillis is chairman and co-founder of Applied Minds. Previously, he was vice president and Disney fellow for Research and Development at Walt Disney Imagineering, and a co-founder of Thinking Machines Corp. While completing his doctorate at MIT, he pioneered the concept of parallel computers that is now the basis for most supercomputers, as well as the RAID disk array technology used to store large databases. He is the recipient of the inaugural Dan David Prize, the Spirit of American Creativity Award, the Hopper Award, and the Ramanujan Award. He is a fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the International Leadership Forum, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.