Danny Hillis
EIT Visiting Member
Partner, Applied Invention
Visiting Professor, MIT
Visiting Professor, MIT
Judge Widney Professor of Engineering and Medicine, USC
Danny Hillis is an American inventor, entrepreneur, scientist, and writer who founded Thinking Machines, a pioneering manufacturer of parallel computers. He is currently a partner at Applied Invention, a Visiting Professor at MIT, Judge Widney Professor of Engineering and Medicine at USC, and co-founder of The Long Now Foundation. He is a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.