Thinking Machines Corporation

Thinking Machines Corporation
Company type	Private
Founded	May 1983; Waltham, Massachusetts, U.S.
Founder	Sheryl Handler; Danny Hillis;
Defunct	1994
Successor	Sun Microsystems; IBM; Ab Initio Software;
Headquarters	Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Products	Connection Machine supercomputers; DataVault storage
Number of employees	1000

Thinking Machines Corporation was a supercomputer manufacturer and artificial intelligence (AI) company,^[1] founded in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1983 by Sheryl Handler and W. Daniel "Danny" Hillis to turn Hillis's doctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on massively parallel computing architectures into a commercial product named the Connection Machine. The company moved in 1984 from Waltham to Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, close to the MIT AI Lab. Thinking Machines made some of the most powerful supercomputers of the time, and by 1993 the four fastest computers in the world were Connection Machines.^[2] The firm filed for bankruptcy in 1994; its hardware and parallel computing software divisions were acquired in time by Sun Microsystems.

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