At Thinking Machines Corporation, Hillis built a technical team with many people that would later become leaders in science and industry including Brewster Kahle, Guy Steele, Sydney Brenner, David Waltz, Jack Schwartz, and Eric Lander.
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This clock became the Clock of the Long Now, a name invented by the songwriter and composer, Brian Eno.
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Hillis left Disney in 2000, taking with him Bran Ferren, President of the Walt Disney Imagineering, R&D Creative Technologies division.
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In 1985, continuing this research, Hillis received a PhD in EECS from MIT under doctoral advisers Gerald Jay Sussman, Marvin Minsky and Claude Shannon.
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One of their projects involves the construction of a clock, designed by W. Daniel Hillis, intended to keep time for 10,000 years.