Home › Authors › W. Daniel Hillis 👤 W. Daniel Hillis b. 1956 ยท 5 books Biography American inventor and computer scientist. Founder of Thinking Machines, Applied Minds, and Applied Inventions. Books by W. Daniel Hillis The pattern on the stone 1998 A New era in computation 1992 Parallel Models of Intelligenc Parallel Models of Intelligence 1988 The connection machine 1985 Digital World Digital World