Danny Hillis is an accomplished inventor, entrepreneur, scientist, writer, and visionary who has made significant contributions to the field of computer science. He is the co-founder of Applied Invention, where he works with interdisciplinary teams to develop technology solutions in partnership with leading companies and entrepreneurs. Hillis is also affiliated with several prestigious institutions, serving as a Visiting Professor at the MIT Media Lab, a Judge Widney Professor of Engineering and Medicine at the University of Southern California, a Research Professor of Engineering at the Viterbi School of Engineering, and a Principal Investigator of the National Cancer Institute's Physical Sciences in Oncology Laboratory at USC. He holds over 300 patents in various fields, including parallel computers, touch interfaces, disk arrays, forgery prevention methods, electronic and mechanical devices, and biomedical techniques. Hillis has played a crucial role in the development of several groundbreaking inventions, such as the concept of parallel computers, which is now the foundation for most supercomputers, and the graph database technology expressed in the open knowledge store Freebase, among others. Hillis studied for his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Mathematics and Computer Science at MIT.