David Gelernter
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David Hillel Gelernter 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 (http://sunsite.uakom.sk/sunworldonline/swol-08-1998/swol-08-jini.html) 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, 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 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] (http://www.nea.gov/about/NCA/Gelernter.html)
Gelernter is a contributor to rightist magazines such as City Journal and The Weekly Standard.
Books
- Drawing Life : Surviving The Unabomber 1997 ISBN 0684839121
- 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
- Machine Beauty : Elegance And The Heart Of Technology 1998
- Programming Linguistics 1990 ISBN 0262071274
- Mirror Worlds, Or, The Day Software Puts The Universe In A Shoebox-- : How It Will Happen And What It Will mean 1991 ISBN 019507906X
- 1939 : The Lost World Of The Fair 1995 ISBN 028740025
External Link
- David Gelernter: Faculty - Computer Science at Yale (http://www.cs.yale.edu/people/gelernter.html)