# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-daniel-hillis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:23:58.597Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-daniel-hillis"
name: "William Daniel Hillis"
slug: "william-daniel-hillis"
description: "William Daniel Hillis is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and computer scientist, who pioneered parallel computers and their use in artificial intelligence. He founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a parallel supercomputer manufacturer, and subsequently was Vice President of Research and Disney Fellow at Walt Disney Imagineering."
tagline: "American computer scientist (born 1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Danny_Hillis2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1956-09-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.700404
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump