Hillis, who built a computer with 64,000 processors at MIT in 1985, is
in converstion with NR Narayana Murthy, Chairman of Infosys at:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/836641.cms
Hillis lived in Calcutta in his teenage. He calls his Connection
Machine as an example of a very large number of simple things working
together to do something very complicated. A lot more at the link :)
-Ramanraj