Editing Thinking Machines Corporation (section)

==Dispersal==
Many of the hardware people left for [[Sun Microsystems]] and went on to design the [[Sun Enterprise]] series of parallel computers. The ''Darwin'' [[data mining]] toolkit, developed by Thinking Machines' Business Supercomputer Group, was purchased by [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]].  Most of the team that built ''Darwin'' had already left for [[Dun & Bradstreet]] soon after Thinking Machines Corporation entered bankruptcy in 1994.

Thinking Machines alumni (known as "Thunkos") helped create several parallel computing software start-ups, including [[Ab Initio Software]]; and Applied Parallel Technologies, which was later renamed [[Torrent Systems]] and acquired by [[Ascential Software]], which was in turn acquired by [[IBM]].

Besides Hillis, other noted people who worked for or with the company included Robert Millstein, [[Greg Papadopoulos]], [[David Waltz]], [[Guy L. Steele Jr.]], [[Karl Sims]], [[Brewster Kahle]], Bradley Kuszmaul, [[Carl Feynman]], Cliff Lasser, Marvin Denicoff, Alex Vasilevsky, Allan Torres, [https://techonomy.com/people/richard-fishman/ Richard Fishman], Mirza Mehdi, Alan Harshman, Richard Jordan, Alan Mercer, James Bailey, [[Tsutomu Shimomura]]. Among the early corporate fellows of Thinking Machines were [[Marvin Minsky]], [[Douglas Lenat]], [[Stephen Wolfram]], [[Tomaso Poggio]], [[Richard Feynman]], and [[Jack Schwartz]], later joined by [[Charles E. Leiserson]], [[Alan Edelman]], [[Eric Lander]], and [[Lennart Johnsson]].

[[DARPA]]'s Connection Machines were decommissioned by 1996.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/computers/gallery/index.jsp |title=SCD supercomputers, past and present (grouped by vendor) |website=Computational & Information Systems Lab (CISL), Supercomputer Gallery |publisher=National Center for Atmospheric Research }}</ref>