"While helping Danny Hillis build the Connection Machine in the 1980s, Richard Feynman proposed regular seminars with people exploring new applications."
In his firsthand account published in Physics Today in 1989 and republished by Long Now in 2017, Danny Hillis recalls Feynman's proposal for a recurring seminar series at Thinking Machines Corporation. Feynman wanted outside specialists to bring unfamiliar applications to the experimental computer, providing a historical example of deliberate knowledge exchange between technology makers and prospective users.
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