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. Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Computer Science Open Directory Project: Computer Science Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies Belief that title science in computer science is inappropriate Categories: Computer science ... This article is about the institution of higher learning in the United States. ... Parallel computing is the simultaneous execution of the same task (split up and specially adapted) on multiple processors in order to obtain faster results. ... In computer science, Linda is an implementation of the TupleSpaces model for concurrent programming. ... William N. Joy (born 1954), commonly known as Bill Joy, co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Andy Bechtolsheim, and served as chief scientist at the company until 2003. ... JINI™ is a pseudo-acronym: Jini Is Not Initials that refers to a network architecture for the construction of distributed systems where scale, rate of change and complexity of interactions within and between networks are extremely important and cannot be satisfactorily addressed by existing technologies. ...

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. A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B.) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... This article is about the institution of higher learning in the United States. ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... Stony Brook University Stony Brook University (SBU) or the University at Stony Brook (USB), or the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNYSB), located in Stony Brook, New York, USA, is one of the premier public universities in the United States with more than 21,000 students enrolled. ... 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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. 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... A mailbomb (or mail bomb), also called parcel bomb or letter bomb, is an explosive device sent via the postal service, and designed to explode when opened, injuring or killing the recipient, usually someone the sender has a personal grudge against, or more indiscriminately as part of a terrorist campaign. ... Theodore Kaczynski Theodore John Kaczynski, Ph. ...

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] The National Endowment for the Arts is a United States federally funded program that offers support and funding for projects that exhibit artistic excellence. ...

Gelernter is a contributor to magazines such as City Journal, The Weekly Standard, and Commentary which are often considered neoconservative or rightist. is a quarterly magazine focusing on urban policy. ... The Weekly Standard is an American conservative political magazine published 48 times per year. ... There are several senses for Commentary: Informed criticism. ... Neoconservatism describes several distinct political ideologies which are considered new forms of conservatism. ... In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the Right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics. ...

Books

• The Muse in the Machine : Computerizing the Poetry of Human Thought 2002 ISBN: 0743236556
• 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

Political Articles

• Americanism - & Its Enemies [2]

External Link

• David Gelernter: Faculty - Computer Science at Yale