The Connection Machine

Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, Cambridge, 1985. First Edition. Octavo with black and blue pictorial boards; xiii, 190 pages: illustrations; 24 cm Very good; some light shelfwear; bump to lower corner; sticker to spine; pages are clean otherwise . Hardcover.

Nobel Laureate Donald Glaser's copy, with spine label of his personal research library. For more books from Glaser's library, search using the keycode: GLSR. Glaser won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1961 for the invention of the Bubble Chamber. Describes a new kind of computer which involves parallel processing and hundreds of small microprocessors with individually integrated memories, and discusses the LISP programming language, data structures, and storage allocation. Author " W. Daniel Hillis is a founder of Thinking Machines Corporation, where he is engaged in building Connection Machines as a significant step toward real thinking machines. The Connection Machine is a 1985 ACM Distinguished Dissertation." -Back cover. Contents: How to program a connection machine. Design considerations. The prototype. Data structures for the connection machine. Storage allocation. New computer architectures and their relationship to physics or, why computer science is no good. Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--MIT, 1985.