Thinking Machines

My roommate was Brewster Kahle, who was at Thinking Machines at the time and went on to found the Internet Archive later on. He introduced me to Danny Hillis and the gang at Thinking Machines and I ended up joining them and trying to figure out how to program this crazy new parallel computer—to make pictures and computer animation with it.

Karl Sims, Karl Sims & Alexander Mordvintsev on Merging Technology and Biology

I actually worked at Thinking Machines twice. After a while, I returned to the MIT Media Lab for a graduate degree, then worked in Hollywood for a while, and then returned to Thinking Machines.

Karl Sims, Karl Sims & Alexander Mordvintsev on Merging Technology and Biology