"in collaboration with others at Thinking Machines"
If you're old enough, you might remember Danny Hillis' Thinking Machines from the late 80s. I wish they had chosen a different name (I say this for nostalgic reasons, having been in front of one of those cubes glowing with red LEDs back in the late 80s at MIT's AI Lab" (renamed to CSAIL at some point). Feynman did some amazing work on that, too: https://longnow.org/ideas/richard-feynman-and-the-connection...
In the U.S., the “THINKING MACHINES” trademarks were owned by Thinking Machines Corporation (the company Hillis co-founded), not Hillis personally, and those registrations were cancelled in 1998–1999. USPTO Report +1
The company itself went bankrupt in 1994 and its assets were dispersed (e.g., to Sun Microsystems, later Oracle).
There’s a new, pending USPTO application for “THINKING MACHINES” filed in 2025 by Thinking Machines Lab Inc., the company founded by Amira Murati.
I make this mistake every time I see their name.
didnt feynmann shag his colleagues wives? the more i read about him, the more he seems like a cunt
I had no idea. But I believe the same deal with Einstein being a dick to his wife and never acknowledging his friend who taught him the math he used in his work (I read about that recently from a respectable source.) I guess that makes sense; no one is void of some deep flaw, it's just selectively hidden.