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W. Daniel Hillis is a Founding Partner of Applied Invention, LLC., a research and development company creating a range of new products and services in software, hardware, and biotechnology. He is Professor of Research Medicine in the Keck School of Medicine at USC and is the Widney Professor of Engineering and Medicine at USC. Previously, Hillis was VP, R&D at Walt Disney Imagineering. Hillis was co-founder of Thinking Machines Corp., a leading innovator in massive parallel supercomputers and RAID disk arrays. In addition to conceiving and designing the company’s major products, he worked closely with customers in applying parallel computers to a wide range of problems in biology, physics, finance and engineering.