History & Science

This article from 1995 has some particularly interesting sections - if you find computer science interesting. Thinking Machines Corporation was an early competitor in the field of parallel processing super computers. Famous physicist Richard Feynman also contributed to the work done by Thinking Machines.

In the later 1980s and 1990s, attention turned from vector processors to massive parallel processing systems with thousands of “ordinary” CPUs…

Thinking Machines Corporation was a supercomputer manufacturer founded in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1982 by W. Daniel “Danny” Hillis and Sheryl Handler to turn Hillis’s doctoral work at MIT on massively parallel computing architectures into a commercial product called the Connection Machine…

…on alternatives to the traditional von Neumann architecture of computation. The Connection Machine was originally intended for applications in artificial intelligence and symbolic processing, but later versions found greater success in the field of computational science.

- enWikipedia