Sheryl Handler

Sheryl Handler (born 1955) is an American businesswoman recognized as one of the founders of Thinking Machines and is the founder and current CEO of Ab Initio.

Education and career

Handler attended Case Western Reserve University for interior design and received her master's degree in landscape architecture from Harvard University.[1] Handler had previously participated in the start-up of the Genetics Institute at Harvard and was pursuing her doctorate in city planning at MIT when she met Danny Hillis, a fellow MIT graduate student working on parallel computing.[2] Hillis and his PhD advisor, Marvin Minsky, were looking to market a connection machine as a tool with which to develop software programs for artificial intelligence.[1] Handler helped found the Thinking Machines Corporation, where she served as CEO until 1992. After the Thinking Machines Corporation went bankrupt in 1995, Handler and several other former employees founded Ab Initio Software.

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References
  1. Gary A. Taubes (15 September 2015). "The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines". Inc.com. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
  2. Sanger, David E. (8 May 1987). "A Computer Full of Surprises". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
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