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W.H. Hilf writes hard science fiction that treats technology as a force of nature. Powerful, elegant, and dangerous when misunderstood.

He helped build some of the world’s largest scientific computing systems at IBM, played a founding role in launching Microsoft Azure, and pushed open source forward inside two of the most closed environments on Earth. As CEO of Vale Group, formerly Vulcan Inc., he oversaw Paul Allen’s portfolio spanning aerospace, artificial intelligence, conservation science, film, museums, and frontier investments.

Today, he serves as Board Chair of the Allen Institute for AI, where researchers build fully open large language models and apply AI to climate modeling, wildlife tracking, and ocean intelligence. He also chairs ...more

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The Disruption (The Disruption Cycle Book 1)

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