Talk:Ken Batcher

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The history of this page was to correct the misattribution of Batcher's quote (to Cray) on the Wikipedia page on supercomputers. It appears to be fleshing out nicely for Ken. --eugene miya

Hillis and Connection Machine[edit]

Hillis's book calls Batcher "the original massively parallel hacker". Can somebody find the citation? Thanks. Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 01:20, 6 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

While I see Danny once a month, it would help to know which of Danny's books you refer. Yes Danny hacks, but I'm not even certain that Ken is invited to the Hackers Conference. Thinking about it, probably others before Ken could claim the massively parallel before him (Dave Kuck could be asked). Ken just had a machine using that phrase before others. 198.123.51.178 (talk) 21:26, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's Hillis's book on the Connection Machine (MIT Press, of course!), which has a very nice and honorific salute to Batcher as a "hacker". I don't know whether Batcher could be described as a hacker, but his colleague Paul Wang made a contribution to the Hacker's Dictionary! Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) 22:31, 13 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]