Tamiko Thiel

Tamiko Thiel received the 2024 SIGGRAPH Lifetime Achievement in Digital Arts Award and is in the AWE XR Hall of Fame for over 40 years of media artworks illuminating natural, technological, social and cultural systems. She encountered quantum physics as a student 1974–1976 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, but detoured into product design, working from 1983–1985 with Nobel QED physicist Richard Feynman on the Connection Machines, the first commercial AI supercomputers. In 2025 the ERES Foundation commissioned her to work with quantum physicists to create the immersive experience ParadoQc/Machines (with /p) — and discovered Feynman had been writing the seminal paper on quantum computing, first simulating it in 1985 on a Connection Machine.