David Gelernter

David Hillel Gelernter ( born March 5, 1955) is an American computer scientist and conservative culture journalist.

He is the son of the computer scientist Herbert Gelernter. His ancestors lived in Hamburg, they were partly here immigrated from Eastern Europe; another branch of his family is from the southern United States.

Gelernter studied at Yale University first Jewish Studies ( master's degree, 1977) and in 1982 in computer science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook ( SUNY ) at Arthur Jay Bernstein PhD (An integrated microcomputer network for experiments in distributed programming ).

He was seriously injured by a letter bomb of the Unabomber in 1993. His right hand and his right eye suffered permanent damage. He wrote about it in 1997, the book Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber. His assassination following turning on the Jewish religion was reflected in his book Judaism ( 2009). Gelernter was originally a visual artist (painter) and deals with social and cultural aspects of the computer.

The tuple space concept (English: Tuple Space ), which he implemented in his programming with Linda Nicholas Carriero in 1983, is an important concept in parallel computing and computer networks.

His book Mirror Worlds 1991 is widely regarded as a visionary in terms of the development of the World Wide Web. Some of the ideas were implemented in software concepts ( Lifestream ) the company Mirror Worlds ( ScopeWare, 2001), which he co-founded, whose chief scientist he was, and was until 2004 the operating business ( but with the announcement of Windows Vista was forced out of the market in 2003 ). Lifestream took many later widely used web-based streaming media communication concepts anticipated. Mirror Worlds sued Apple for patent infringement and got 2010, approximately $ 625 million by a Texas court awarded. A federal judge on Court of Appeal overturned the decision in 2011 but on what Apple had violated patents owned by Mirror Worlds.

His Tuple Space concept and his book Mirror Worlds should also have been inspiring for the development of the Java programming language (and Linda and Tuple Space concept specifically for JavaSpaces ). Gelernter is also considered a pioneer of the concept of cloud computing.

Gelernter also wrote a regular newspaper articles and essays, for example, for the Washington Post, LA Times (where he was a columnist in 2005 ), New York Post ( columnist 1996/97), ArtNews, Commentary and is co-editor of the Weekly Standard. Since the spring of 2010, he is also a columnist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Since 2003 he is member of the advisory board of the National Endowment for the Arts and he was from 2003 to 2006 the Council of the National Endowment for the Arts ( NEA). He is a senior fellow at the Shalem Center for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem.

Writings

  • Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox ... How it will happen and what it will mean, Oxford University Press 1991
  • The Muse in the Machine: computerizing the poetry of human thought, 1994
  • Machine Beauty: Elegance and the heart of technology, Perseus Publishing 1998
  • Nicholas Carriero How to write parallel programs - a first course, MIT Press 1990
  • With David Padua, Alexandru Nicolau: Language and Compiler for Parallel Computing, MIT Press, 1990.
  • Suresh Jagannathan with: Programming Linguistics, MIT Press 1990
  • The Aesthetics of computing, Orion Books 1998
  • Drawing life - surviving the Unabomber, Free Press 1997, Simon and Schuster
  • Americanism - the fourth great western religion. Doubleday, Random House, 2007.
  • Judaism: a way of being, Yale University Press 2009
  • America -Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture ( and Ushered in the Obamacrats ). Encounter Books, in 2012., ISBN 978-1594036064
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