Editing Connection Machine (section)

==Origin of idea==
[[Danny Hillis]] and [[Sheryl Handler]] founded [[Thinking Machines Corporation]] (TMC) in [[Waltham, Massachusetts]], in 1983, moving in 1984 to Cambridge, MA.  At TMC, Hillis assembled a team to develop what would become the CM-1 Connection Machine, a design for a massively parallel [[Hypercube internetwork topology|hypercube]]-based arrangement of thousands of [[microprocessor]]s, springing from his PhD thesis work at MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1985).<ref name="WDHmit86">{{cite book |author-first=W. Daniel |author-last=Hillis |date=1986 |title=The Connection Machine |publisher=[[MIT Press]] |isbn=0262081571 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/connectionmachin00hill }}</ref> The dissertation won the ACM Distinguished Dissertation prize in 1985,<ref>{{cite web |title=William Daniel Hillis - Award Winner |url=http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/hillis_4558874.cfm#146 |website=ACM Awards |access-date=2015-04-30}}</ref> and was presented as a monograph that overviewed the philosophy, architecture, and software for the first Connection Machine, including information on its data routing between [[central processing unit]] (CPU) nodes, its memory handling, and the programming language [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]] applied in the parallel machine.<ref name="WDHmit86"/><ref name="KahleWDH89">{{cite book |first1 = Brewster |last1 = Kahle | first2 = W. Daniel | last2 = Hillis | year = 1989 | title=The Connection Machine Model CM-1 Architecture |type=Technical report |location = Cambridge, MA |publisher = Thinking Machines Corp. | page = 7 pp | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=PCq7uAAACAAJ | access-date = 2015-04-25}}</ref> Very early concepts contemplated just over a million processors, each connected in a 20-dimensional hypercube,<ref name=hillis1989>{{cite journal |last1=Hillis |first1=W. Daniel |title=Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine |journal=Physics Today |date=1989a |volume=42 |issue=2 |page=78 |doi=10.1063/1.881196 |bibcode=1989PhT....42b..78H |url=https://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-and-connection-machine/ |access-date=30 June 2021|url-access=subscription }}</ref> which was later scaled down.