KSR's competitors included Thinking Machines, Meiko Scientific, and various old-line ( and still surviving ) companies like IBM, Intel, and Sun Microsystems.

It was developed in the late 1980s as a project of Thinking Machines, Apple Computer, Dow Jones, and KPMG Peat Marwick.

The WAIS protocol and servers were primarily promoted by Thinking Machines Corporation ( TMC ) of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

With the advent of Z39. 50: 1992, the termination of support for the free WAIS from Thinking Machines and the establishment of WAIS Inc as a commercial venture, the U. S. National Science Foundation funded CNIDR to create a clearinghouse of information related to Internet search and discovery systems and to promote open source and standards.

This created first the freeWAIS package based on the wais-8-b5 codebase implemented by Thinking Machines Corp and then a wholly new software suite Isite based upon Z39. 50: 1992 with Isearch as its full text search engine.

Thinking Machines Corp provided a service called the Directory of Servers.

Two of the developers of WAIS, Brewster Kahle and Harry Morris, left Thinking Machines to found WAIS Inc in Menlo Park, California with Bruce Gilliat.

WAIS Inc. was originally developed as a joint project between Apple Computer, Peat Markwick, Dow Jones, and Thinking Machines.

The first era of modern SIMD machines was characterized by massively parallel processing-style supercomputers such as the Thinking Machines CM-1 and CM-2.

For example, each of 64, 000 processors in a Thinking Machines CM-2 would execute the same instruction at the same time, allowing, for instance multiplications on 64, 000 pairs of numbers at a time.

* Connection Machine, models 1 and 2 ( CM-1 and CM-2 ), from Thinking Machines Corporation, circa 1985

Thinking Machines CM-2 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

Danny Hillis and Sheryl Handler founded Thinking Machines in Waltham, Massachusetts ( it was later moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts ) in 1983 and assembled a team to develop the CM-1 Connection Machine.

With the CM-5, announced in 1991, Thinking Machines switched from the CM-2's hypercubic architecture of simple processors to an entirely new MIMD architecture based on a fat tree network of SPARC RISC processors.

Thinking Machines CM-5 " FROSTBURG " at the National Cryptologic Museum

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.

The company moved in 1984 from Waltham to Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, close to the MIT AI Lab and Thinking Machines ' competitor Kendall Square Research.

Besides Kendall Square Research, Thinking Machines ' competitors included MasPar, which made a computer similar to the CM-2, and Meiko, whose CS-2 was similar to the CM-5.

" – Thinking Machines ' motto

Advertisement poster located at the National Cryptologic Museum Thinking Machines produced a number of Connection Machine models ( in chronological order ): the CM-1, CM-2, CM-200, CM-5, and the CM-5E.

Thinking Machines also introduced the first commercial RAID disk array, called the DataVault, in 1985.

Thinking Machines developed the C * programming language as an extension of the C programming language for the Connection Machine data parallel computing system.

Thinking Machines was the third company to register a. com domain name ( think. com ), which it did in May 1985.

In 1991, DARPA reduced its purchases amid criticism it was unfairly subsidizing Thinking Machines at the expense of other vendors like Cray, IBM, and in particular, NCUBE and MasPar.

Thinking Machines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August 1994.

Thinking fast, Tilghman never hesitated for one instant.

Thinking to regain control on the island that had produced so much wealth, Napoleon sent more than 20, 000 troops beginning in 1802 to quell the slave revolt in Saint-Domingue, which quickly escalated into war for independence.

Rule 13 of Ignatius ' Rules for Thinking with the Church said: " That we may be altogether of the same mind and in conformity [...], if Church shall have defined anything to be black which to our eyes appears to be white, we ought in like manner to pronounce it to be black.

A smaller work, Man in a Room Thinking, painted in 1947, sold for £ 66, 000 at the same auction.

* Law, Stephen ( 2005 ) Thinking Tools: The Relativist Fallacy, Think: Philosophy for everyone ( A journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy ) 3: 57-58 y

Thinking of matrices as tensors, the tensor rank generalizes to arbitrary tensors ; note that for tensors of order greater than 2 ( matrices are order 2 tensors ), rank is very hard to compute, unlike for matrices.

* James, William ( 1907 ), Pragmatism, A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking, Popular Lectures on Philosophy, Longmans, Green, and Company, New York, NY.

: Thinking of wealth and the great world of creatures, she poured for Nahusa her milk and fatness.

") Thinking their days were numbered, the Stooges would sweat it out each and every year, with Cohn renewing their contract for another year at the eleventh hour.

Thinking again means that activity most unthinkable for politicians –- unsaying what has been said.

* Thinking about Grad School for Intellectual History ?- Read this first

On the other hand, David ben Yom-Tob ibn Bilia, in his " Yesodot ha-Maskil " ( Fundamentals of the Thinking Man ), adds to the 13 of Maimonides 13 of his own — a number which a contemporary of Albo also chose for his fundamentals ; while Jedaiah Penini, in the last chapter of his " Behinat ha-Dat ," enumerated no less than 35 cardinal principles.

* Derrida ( 1991 ) " A ' Madness ' Must Watch Over Thinking ", interview with Francois Ewald for Le Magazine Litteraire, March 1991, republished in Points ...: Interviews, 1974-1994 ( 1995 ).

Thinking him dead, Tintin, Haddock and Skut return to Europe to international renown for their efforts in exposing the slave traders.

The 1996 film Mission Impossible has a reference to the company when Ving Rhames character Luther Stickell asks Jean Reno's character Franz Kreiger for Thinking Machine laptops to assist with a hack into the CIA's Langley supercomputer.

Thinking it was just a case of ' beginner's luck ' ( as it was Sánchez's first world title fight ever ), Lopez looked for a rematch and this he got, in Las Vegas.

"' Wishful Thinking ' is a new lexicon, a dictionary for the restless believer, for the doubter, for anyone who wants to redefine or define more concretely those words that have become an integral part of our daily language — words that we use about God, the universe and, last but never least, humankind.