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*Lisp
The *Lisp (aka StarLisp) programming language was conceived of in 1985 by Cliff Lasser and Steve Omohundro (employees of the Thinking Machines Corporation) as a way of providing an efficient yet high-level language for programming the nascent Connection Machine.
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AgentSheets
AgentSheets is a Cyberlearning tool to teach students programming and related information technology skills through game design.
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Blinkenlights
Blinkenlights is a neologism for diagnostic lights usually on the front panels on old mainframe computers, minicomputers, many early microcomputers, and modern network hardware.
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Brewster Kahle
Brewster Kahle (born October 22, 1960), via juggle.com.
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C*
C* is an object-oriented, data-parallel superset of ANSI C with synchronous semantics.
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Charles E. Leiserson
Charles Eric Leiserson is a computer scientist, specializing in the theory of parallel computing and distributed computing, and particularly practical applications thereof.
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CM
CM or its variants may refer to.
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CM1
CM1, CM-1 or cm−1 may refer to.
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CM2
CM2, CM-2 or cm2 may refer to.
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CM5
CM5 may refer to.
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Cray-3/SSS
The Cray-3/SSS (Super Scalable System) was a pioneering massively parallel supercomputer project that bonded a two-processor Cray-3 to a new SIMD processing unit based entirely in the computer's main memory.
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Danny Hillis
William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, scientist, and writer who is particularly known for his work in computer science.
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Embarrassingly parallel
In parallel computing, an embarrassingly parallel workload or problem (also called perfectly parallel or pleasingly parallel) is one where little or no effort is needed to separate the problem into a number of parallel tasks.
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EPCC
EPCC, formerly the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, is a supercomputing centre based at the University of Edinburgh.
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Evans & Sutherland ES-1
The ES-1 was Evans & Sutherland's abortive attempt to enter the supercomputer market.
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Experimental Study Group
The Experimental Study Group (ESG) describes itself as a freshman learning community at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Fat tree
The fat tree network is a universal network for provably efficient communication.
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Flat neighborhood network
Flat Neighborhood Network (FNN) is a topology for distributed computing and other computer networks.
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FROSTBURG
FROSTBURG was a Connection Machine 5 (CM-5) massively parallel supercomputer used by the US National Security Agency (NSA) to perform higher-level mathematical calculations.
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Gang scheduling
In computer science, gang scheduling is a scheduling algorithm for parallel systems that schedules related threads or processes to run simultaneously on different processors.
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George G. Robertson
George G. Robertson is an American information visualization expert and Senior Researcher, Visualization and Interaction (VIBE) Research Group, Microsoft Research.
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Goodyear MPP
The Goodyear Massively Parallel Processor (MPP) was a massively parallel processing supercomputer built by Goodyear Aerospace for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Granularity (parallel computing)
In parallel computing, granularity (or grain size) of a task is a measure of the amount of work (or computation) which is performed by that task.
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Hypertree network
A hypertree network is a network topology that shares some traits with the binary tree network.
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ICL Distributed Array Processor
The Distributed Array Processor (DAP) produced by International Computers Limited (ICL) was the world's first commercial massively parallel computer.
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ILLIAC IV
The ILLIAC IV was the first massively parallel computer.
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Karl Sims
Karl Sims is a computer graphics artist and researcher, who is best known for using particle systems and artificial life in computer animation.
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Keith Waters
Keith Waters (born 1962 in Kent, England) is a British animator who is best known for his work in the field of computer facial animation.
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Ken Batcher
Ken Batcher, full name Kenneth Edward Batcher is an emeritus professor of Computer Science at Kent State University.
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Klaus Schulten
Klaus Schulten (January 12, 1947 – October 31, 2016) was a German-American computational biophysicist and the Swanlund Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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List of computer scientists
This is a list of computer scientists, people who do work in computer science, in particular researchers and authors.
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List of Igbo people
The list of Igbo people includes notable individuals who have full or significant ancestry traced back to the Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria.
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Logarithm
In mathematics, the logarithm is the inverse function to exponentiation.
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MasPar
MasPar Computer Corporation was a minisupercomputer vendor that was founded in 1987 by Jeff Kalb.
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Massively parallel
In computing, massively parallel refers to the use of a large number of processors (or separate computers) to perform a set of coordinated computations in parallel (simultaneously).
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Michael L. Best
Michael L. Best is an American computer scientist and international development specialist serving as the first director of the United Nations University Institute on Computing and Society established in 2015.
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MIMD
In computing, MIMD (multiple instruction, multiple data) is a technique employed to achieve parallelism.
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NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division
The NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division is located at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field in the heart of Silicon Valley in Mountain View, California.
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NEARnet
NEARnet (New England Academic and Research Network) was a high-speed network of academic, industrial, government, and non-profit organizations centered in Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts.
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NEC SX architecture
The SX series are vector supercomputers designed, manufactured, and marketed by NEC.
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Neuroethology
Neuroethology is the evolutionary and comparative approach to the study of animal behavior and its underlying mechanistic control by the nervous system.
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Numerical Wind Tunnel (Japan)
Numerical Wind Tunnel (数値風洞) was an early implementation of the vector parallel architecture developed in a joint project between National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan and Fujitsu.
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Philip Emeagwali
Philip Emeagwali is a Nigerian computer scientist.
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Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman (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.
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Samplesort
Samplesort is a sorting algorithm that is a divide and conquer algorithm often used in parallel processing systems.
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Serial computer
A serial computer is a computer typified by bit-serial architecture — i.e., internally operating on one bit or digit for each clock cycle.
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Sheryl Handler
Sheryl Handler is an American businesswoman recognized as one of the founders of Thinking Machines and is the founder and current CEO of Ab Initio.
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SIMD
Single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) is a class of parallel computers in Flynn's taxonomy.
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Sparse distributed memory
Sparse distributed memory (SDM) is a mathematical model of human long-term memory introduced by Pentti Kanerva in 1988 while he was at NASA Ames Research Center.
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StarLogo
StarLogo is an agent-based simulation language developed by Mitchel Resnick, Eric Klopfer, and others at MIT Media Lab and MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program in Massachusetts.
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Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram (born August 29, 1959) is a British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman.
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Steve Omohundro
Stephen M. Omohundro (born 1959) is an American computer scientist whose areas of research include Hamiltonian physics, dynamical systems, programming languages, machine learning, machine vision, and the social implications of artificial intelligence.
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Supercomputer
A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance compared to a general-purpose computer.
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Symbolics
Symbolics refers to two companies: now-defunct computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc., and a privately held company that acquired the assets of the former company and continues to sell and maintain the Open Genera Lisp system and the Macsyma computer algebra system.
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Tamiko Thiel
Tamiko Thiel (born June 15, 1957, daughter of Midori Kono Thiel) is an internationally active American media artist who specializes in "exploring the interplay of place, space, the body and cultural identity".
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Thinking Machines Corporation
Thinking Machines Corporation was a supercomputer manufacturer and Artificial Intelligence company,founded in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1983 by Sheryl Handler and W. Daniel "Danny" Hillis to turn Hillis's doctoral work at MIT on massively parallel computing architectures into a commercial product known as the Connection Machine.
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Timeline of Cambridge, Massachusetts
This is a timeline of the history of the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
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Timeline of computing 1980–89
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TIS-100
TIS-100 is a puzzle video game and programming game developed by Zachtronics Industries.
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Tom Knight (scientist)
Tom Knight is an American synthetic biologist and computer engineer, who was formerly a senior research scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, a part of the MIT School of Engineering.
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TOP500
The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world.
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Wide area information server
Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) is a client–server text searching system that uses the ANSI Standard Z39.50 Information Retrieval Service Definition and Protocol Specifications for Library Applications" (Z39.50:1988) to search index databases on remote computers.
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Wormhole switching
Wormhole flow control, also called wormhole switching or wormhole routing, is a system of simple flow control in computer networking based on known fixed links.
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1-bit architecture
A 1-bit computer architecture is an instruction set architecture for a processor that has datapath widths and data register widths of 1 bit (1/8 octet) wide.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection_Machine
