David Gelernter

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 Linda as the inspiration for many elements of JavaSpaces and Jini.

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Computer science - Yale University - Parallel computation - Tuple space - Linda - Bill Joy - Jini

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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.

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Bachelor of Arts - Yale University - 1976 - Ph.D. - State University of New York, Stony Brook - 1982

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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.

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1993 - Mailbomb - Theodore Kaczynski

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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 http://www.nea.gov/about/NCA/Gelernter.html

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Gelernter is a contributor to magazines such as City Journal, The Weekly Standard, and Commentary which are often considered neoconservative or rightist. He is an op-ed columnist for the LA Times where he regularly espouses neoconservative views.

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City Journal - The Weekly Standard - Commentary - Neoconservative - Rightist - LA Times

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