| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Electronics Computer software Consulting Biotechnology Architectural Design |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Glendale, California, USA |
| Key people | Bran Ferren, Co-Chairman Danny Hillis, Co-Chairman |
| Website | appliedminds.com |
Applied Minds, Llc. is a company founded in 2000 by ex-Disney Imagineers Danny Hillis and Bran Ferren that provides technology, design, R&D, and consulting services to multiple firms, including General Motors, Intel, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Herman Miller, Harris Corporation, Sony, and Sun MicroSystems. The company's headquarters are in Glendale, California, and it maintains offices in New York and Washington DC.
It supplies products and services in software, aerospace, entertainment, electronics, biotechnology and architectural design. It has spun out several companies including Metaweb Technologies (the creators of Freebase, which was acquired by Google), TouchTable, and Applied Proteomics.