- Paperback: 206 pages
- Publisher: MIT Press; New edition edition (1 Jan 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0262580977
- ISBN-13: 978-0262580977
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16.3 x 4.1 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,893,062 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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""The Connection Machine" will be appreciated by those who require a lucid description of a computer design that is truly ingenious."--Igor Aleksander, "Nature"
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"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.
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Someday, perhaps soon, we will build a machine that will be able to perform the functions of a human mind, a thinking machine. Read the first page
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
easy reading, good intro to massive multiprocessing
3 Aug 2006
Format:Paperback
Especially given that this book is in fact a doctoral dissertation, it's extremely easy to read. This is not to say that it is written for children, but rather, the author has used language well to convey concepts rather than to confuse and sound stuffy.
The book states the limitations of the traditional Von Neumann computer architecture (which by and large we are still stuck with today) and then goes on to explain how an entirely different approach with many processors could work.
The book states the limitations of the traditional Von Neumann computer architecture (which by and large we are still stuck with today) and then goes on to explain how an entirely different approach with many processors could work.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
What do you get when you connect a zillion computers togethe
26 Nov 2000
Format:Hardcover
This reference describes a computer architecture containing thousands of processor/memory cells that can be connected together by software, and the rational behind this architecture. It is easy to read, and is useful in providing the general reader with a feel for large multiple processor computation, in particular an architecture well suited for semantic network marker propagation.
Connection Machine? Count me in!
17 Aug 2010
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This book is great. I have loved computers for years, and this book has given me a completely different way to think about them.
Hats off to Daniel Hillis!
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Hats off to Daniel Hillis!
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