And so when he wrote that book with ralph leighton, that was a. The life and science of richard feynman recently and it is pretty clear that the man had some issues in his personal life. Danny hillis is best known for his connection machine, a massively parallel supercomputer that led to breakthroughs in computational science and parallel computing. Danny hillis is the founder of thinking machines, the long now foundation, and applied minds. Richard feynmans scientific curiosity knew no bounds.
The simple ideas that make computers work about the author. Danny hillis reminiscing about richard feynman youtube. Richard feynman and the connection machine lambda the. When i got back to boston i went to the library and discovered a book by kimura on the subject. Jim ottavianis graphic novel about richard feynman. This collection is a vivid demonstration of his wit, wisdom, and unquenchable passion for finding things out. Richard feynman and the connection machine the long now. Sean carroll, caltech as this enjoyable and important book shows, richard feynman s lucidity lent itself to pithy quotes of substance. Anyone who enjoyed this piece but is unfamiliar with feynman should check out the book surely youre joking, mr. His son carl was working for danny hilliss thinking machines company and feynman was engaged as a consultant with danny in boston. Richard feynman and the connection machine by danny hillis.
Danny hillis is best known for his connection machine, a massively parallel. One day when i was having lunch with richard feynman, i mentioned to him that i was planning to start. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the quotable feynman. I purchased it and looked through it, before the arson. Previously, he was vice president and disney fellow at walt disney imagineering and.
This baffled the late, great richard feynman, the nobel laureate and father of modern quantum theory acclaimed as one of the notable geniuses of the. Daniel hillis book 46 editions published between 1998 and 2015 in 9 languages and. Most people have little interest in quantum mechanics and no interest at all in understanding bells inequality. W daniel hillis my memories of richard feynman 234248. Richard phillips feynman, formemrs was an american theoretical physicist. I lost this book in an arson of my home, it was planned by two frequency electromagnatic waves planning the arson of my home after it bombs all the libyan who ended slavery of africa by the united states in the barbary wars 180018015, in which thomas jefferson cooperated in the defeat of the united. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. Prior to starting our feynmantuva news feed, we posted news items here. The book boasts forwards by daughter michelle, cellist yoyo ma, and physicist and tv series host brian cox. Hillis is a well known engineer, scientist, and inventor who, in his younger years, was lucky enough to spend a good deal of time with feynman.
If you love richard feynman, you will love this book. Richard feynman 19181988 was one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century. Tedxcaltech danny hillis reminiscing about richard feynman. Daniel hillis the feynman algorithm, which is a simplification of richard feynmans technique to learn anything, is a good all purpose algorithm for solving problems.
Carver mead, for his warm encouragement and generous financial support, without which this edition would have been impossible. Danny hillis on his friendship with richard feynman. All evidence indicates that richard feynman was the most quotable physicist of all time. Feynman 19181988 was widely recognized as the most creative physicist of the postworld war ii period. Contributions from many parties have enabled and benefitted the creation of the html edition of the feynman lectures on physics. Hillis 1998 popular science book the pattern on the stone attempts to explain concepts from. Jim ottaviani spoke with earthsky about his new book on worldfamous nobel physicist richard feynman, released august 2011. Danny hilliss notion of a web based tutora digital school marm. Christopher riley pays tribute to an eccentric genius. Fyi, danny hillis is a pioneer of large scale parallel computing connection machine, he hired richard feynman to help him with that project, the author of the book that got me interested in computers the pattern on the stone, and a researcher in evolutionary programming coevolving parasites improve simulated evolution as an optimization procedure. Weve mentioned the connection machines dataparallel programming style on ltu before, and connection machine lisp remains my alltime favourite paper in computer science.
His voice will remain influential for many years to come. The feynman cult is a funny thing for writing something similar in spirit in my book about how feynmans approach was not the right one for the 1970s developments at the boundary of maths and physics i get these angry rants from crackpots about how dare i say that feynman was not the greatest genius that ever lived, etc, etc, etc, and. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Nobel prize winning physicist richard feynman had previously calculated. One of their videos is a 10minute presentation called richard feynman, the great explainer, part of. Danny hillis, cofounder of applied minds and author of the pattern on the. He founded thinking machines corporation, a parallel supercomputer manufacturer, and subsequently was a fellow at walt disney imagineering. An entertaining article by danny hillis about richard feynmans work at thinking machines corporation on the connection machine.
Richard feynman explaining a principle of quantum mechanics called bells inequality. This is an archive of new items posted between 2001 and 2014. Life, the universe and everything flowers, music, strip clubs. More recently, hillis cofounded applied minds and applied invention, an. The quotable feynman kindle edition by feynman, richard p. Danny hillis on richard feynman the long now foundation essays. His most original contribution, the pathintegral formulation of quantum mechanics, has turned out to be hugely generative. An entertaining article by danny hillis about richard feynmans work at. One day when i was having lunch with richard feynman, i mentioned to him that i was planning to start a company to build a parallel computer with a million processors.
The book will be interesting to a wide audience and i expect to reread it with pleasure in the future. Feynman has 4 books on goodreads with 654263 ratings. Richard feynman, 22 brewster kahle, and eric lander. Richard feynman and the connection machine mental floss. June 18, 2014 on the night before his return to tuva after riding in the rose parade in 20, kongarol ondar recorded some tracks impromptu for dirtwire artists e. It also was the subject of hilliss book the connection machine. The hardcover of the the quotable feynman by richard p.
I worked with richard feynman and edited a book about feynman and computing. Danny hillis on his friendship with richard feynman tedxcaltech. Home directory nanotechnology books richard phillips feynman books. In the early 1960s, richard feynman gave a series of undergraduate lectures that were collected into a book called the feynman lectures on physics. Feynman by jim ottaviani is a rare attempt to explain the life of a brilliant physicist to us all.
I must have read it for like three straight days i read slowly, before one day the book mysteriously disappears. The quotable feynman is a treasuretrove of this revered and beloved scientists most profound. Feynmans interest in spaghetti in a 1993 nova program by filmmaker sykes and the 1994 book no ordinary genuis edited by sykes daniel w. May 11, 1918 february 15, 1988 was an american theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics for which he proposed the parton model. I was trying to design a computer fast enough to solve common sense reasoning problems. Richard feynman and the connection machine published on sunday, january 15, 01989 31 years, 3 months ago written by danny hillis for physics today. The machine, as we envisioned it, would contain a million tiny computers, all connected by a communications network. Murray gellmann, daniel hillis, david goodstein, freeman dyson, and laurie brown. Can you provide some information on krausss book on feynman. Sean carroll, caltech as this enjoyable and important book shows, richard feynmans lucidity lent itself to pithy quotes of substance. Feynmans passion for learning and for teaching physics was infectious, says krauss. Grouped in topical chapters, from how physicists think and the quantum world to imagination. The simple ideas that make computers work as this enjoyable and important book shows, richard feynmans lucidity lent itself to pithy quotes of substance. In this video, i go into an overall take on the book the.
Feynmans most popular book is surely youre joking, mr. Absent from the book was a lecture feynman gave on planetary motion, but a later finding of the notes enabled david goodstein, a colleague of feynmans, to write a book about it. William daniel danny hillis born september 25, 1956 is an american inventor, entrepreneur, and scientist, who pioneered parallel computers and their use in artificial intelligence. While researching feynmans lectures, i stumbled on to a fantastic youtube channel called scishow. Danny hillis, cofounder of applied minds and author of the pattern on the stone. But he was continuously flummoxed and frustrated at the fact that reading information through a book was one of the least educationally efficient ways of actually absorbing the material. Hillis fondly recalls an evening with feynman breaking spaghetti, unsuccessfully trying to discover why it breaks in.
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