DARPA provided my company with a Connection Machine 1, that was the early SIMD architecture, not the later MIMD architecture. I had a Star Lisp simulator runnin

DARPA provided my company with a Connection Machine 1, that was the early SIMD architecture, not the later MIMD architecture. I had a Star Lisp simulator running on Common Lisp that I could use for software development and then I had to travel to the physical location of the CM-1 to actually use it. I regret that I have misplaced Danny Hillis’s Connection Machine book. I have always been just a programmer but I have worked with hardware people who designed fast, for the time, hardware for me to run backprop neural networks in the 1980s. Fast forward to modern times and I am fascinated by projects like Groq that greatly speed up LLM inferencing. Similarly Hillis has created or touched many fascinating projects in his career.