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Sheryl Handler (born 1955) is an American businesswoman recognized as one of the founders ofThinking Machines. She is the founder and CEO ofAb Initio.
Handler attendedCase Western Reserve University for interior design and received her master's degree in landscape architecture fromHarvard University.[1] Handler had previously participated in the start-up of theGenetics Institute at Harvard and was pursuing her doctorate in city planning atMIT when she metDanny Hillis, a fellow MIT graduate student working onparallel computing.[2] Hillis and his PhD advisor,Marvin Minsky, were looking to market aconnection machine as a tool with which to develop software programs for artificial intelligence.[1] Handler helped found theThinking Machines Corporation, where she served as CEO until 1992. After Thinking Machines went bankrupt in 1995, Handler and several other former employees foundedAb Initio Software.
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