David Gelernter
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David Hillel Gelernter (born 1955) is a professor of computer science at Yale University. In the 1980s, he made seminal contributions to the field of parallel computation, specifically the tuple space coordination model, as embodied by the Linda programming system. Bill Joy attributes Linda as the inspiration for many elements of JavaSpaces and Jini.
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University in 1976, and his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1982.
In 1993, he was critically injured opening a mailbomb sent by Theodore Kaczynski, who at that time was an unidentified but violent opponent of technological progress, dubbed by the press as "the Unabomber." He recovered from his injuries, but sustained permanent damage to his right hand and eye; he chronicled the ordeal in his 1997 book Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber.
He was one of the founders of the company Mirror Worlds Technologies, which created software using ideas from his book "Mirror Worlds". Gelernter Believed that the computer can free its users from being filing clerks by organizing user's data for them. Unfortunately, there was little commercial success for Mirror Worlds and the company disbanded in late 2003.
He was nominated to and subsequently became a member of The National Council on the Arts. His biographical summary can be found at the National Endowment for the Arts web site [1]
Gelernter is a contributor to magazines such as City Journal, The Weekly Standard, and Commentary which are often considered conservative. He was a weekly op-ed columnist for the LA Times, but became too busy to continue after seven months, despite great enthusiasm from conservatives nationwide.
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[edit] Books
- The Muse in the Machine: Computerizing the Poetry of Human Thought 2002 ISBN 0-7432-3655-6
- Drawing Life: Surviving The Unabomber 1997 ISBN 0-684-83912-1
- How To Write Parallel Programs: A First Course by Nicholas Carriero, David Gelernter 1990
- Languages And Compilers For Parallel Computing edited by David Gelernter, Alexandru Nicolau, And David Padua 1990
- Gelernter, David (1998). Machine Beauty : Elegance And The Heart Of Technology, 1st, New York, US: Basic Books, 166. ISBN 0465045162.
- Programming Linguistics 1990 ISBN 0-262-07127-4
- Mirror Worlds, Or, The Day Software Puts The Universe In A Shoebox-- : How It Will Happen And What It Will mean 1991 ISBN 0-19-507906-X
- 1939: The Lost World Of The Fair 1995 ISBN 0-02-874002-5
[edit] Political articles
- Americanism - & Its Enemies [2]
[edit] Former Students
- Nicholas Carriero
- Robert Bjornson
- Elisabeth Freeman
- Eric Freeman
- Susanne Hupfer
- David Kaminksy
