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	Digerati: The Conservative: David Gelernter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		There are lots of clever computer scientists; David Gelernter is one of the few who is wise.
		David Gelernter, a leading figure in the third generation of artificial intelligence (AI) scientists, is highly regarded for his parallel programming language Linda, which allows you to distribute a computer program across a multitude of processors and thus break down problems into a multitude of parts in order to solve them more quickly.
		DAVID GELERNTER, a Yale University computer scientist, is the author of Mirror Worlds (1991), The Muse in the Machine (1994), and 1939: The Lost World of the Fair (1995).
	www.edge.org /digerati/gelernter/index.html (287 words)

	Online NewsHour: A Dialogue with Stephen Gelernter--October 16, 1997
		DAVID GELERNTER: It turns out I know a lot of poetry by heart, which is something I didn’t realize until I wound up in the hospital with both hands bandaged and out of play and unable to hold a book.
		DAVID GERGEN: Yet, even as you were inspired by beauty and the truth of poetry, an anger seemed to build up--not just at the Unabomber, whom you didn’t know, but at what was happening inside society, and it seemed--your anger seemed to start with the press.
		DAVID GELERNTER: And I think, even more important, it is--it’s natural to be fascinated with violent crime and violent criminals, and it’s not that I fault people for wanting to read about this case and hear about the man who didn’t understand him.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/gergen/october97/gelernter_10-16.html (1337 words)

	DAvid Gelernter Bomb
		But Gelernter argues that his immodest proposal is the quickest road to creating computers with the creative spark that is the hallmark of the human mind.
		Gelernter writes that "an emotion is a mental state with physical correlates; it is the felt state of mind, where 'felt' means that signals reach the brain that are interpreted as bodily sensations, however fleeting and subtle."
		Gelernter even claims that the human race has moved up the spectrum over the centuries, developing the ability for rational thought rather late in the game.
	www.unabombers.com /News/94-08-12-WP-Gelernter-5.htm (2011 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Drawing Life by David Gelernter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Wisse, Ruth R. In June 1993, David Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale, received a unique summons to consider the problem of evil in America: a parcel addressed to him by an unknown person exploded upon opening, with a force that was intended to kill him.
		...IN JUNE 1993, David Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale, received a unique summons to consider the problem of evil in America: a parcel addressed to him by an unknown person exploded upon opening, with a force that was intended to kill him...
		...Gelernter was a target of the man the FBI would dub the Unabomber, but whom he with greater wit calls "Hut Man" or (on account of his assailant's advertised hatred of technology) "Mr...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V104I6P62-1.htm (1847 words)

	Salon 21st \| Can technology be beautiful?
		David Gelernter is a computer scientist who believes, as he told the New York Times a couple of years ago, that software engineers ought to study Keats -- not only for their own enrichment but in order to become better software engineers.
		Gelernter maintains that beauty is a "truth and rightness meter" that is "crucial to software" as "the ultimate defense against complexity" -- and, particularly, against the tendency of software designers to overload their abstract creations with too many awkwardly integrated capabilities that no one really needs.
		Gelernter is also prone to interrupting his arguments with outbursts of ire against the forces of cultural relativism that he sees threatening truth and beauty at every turn.
	archive.salon.com /21st/books/1998/01/28books.html (895 words)

	Amazon.com: Drawing Life: Books: David Gelernter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Gelernter, bleeding and "royally annoyed," walked to the local hospital, keeping his feet trudging along in time with "an old Zionist marching song with a good strong beat." When he got there, his blood pressure measured zero and surgeons barely saved his life.
		Professor Gelernter survived the nearly fatal attack by the unabomber through gallantry, the ability to find something to be grateful for even in the midst of tragedy, and the support of his family, his friends, and his faith.
		Gelernter, in this highly personal book, is able to metabolize his injury and set out on a crusade to heal a culture which "understands the validity" of the unibomber.
	www.amazon.com /Drawing-Life-David-Gelernter/dp/0684839121 (1804 words)

	Online NewsHour Forum: Authors' Corner: David Gelernter -- November 4, 1997
		David Gelernter survives a Unabomber attack and the press that covered it.
		The second incident occurred when Gelernter opened up a newspaper to find a column comparing his views on technology to those of the Unabomber, the man who committed the crime in a series of violent assaults on the field.
		Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale University and writer for Time magazine himself, says the objectivity for which journalists pride themselves-- and prompts them to equally value the writings of a scholar and a murderer-- is moral craziness.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/authors_corner/july-dec97/gelernter.html (1395 words)

	YAM November/December 2003 - David Gelernter
		To technologists, Gelernter is a visionary whose thinking led to breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and inspired the Java programming language, and who even (in his 1991 book Mirror Worlds) more or less predicted the rise of the Web.
		Gelernter is the computer science professor who, in 1993, was nearly killed by a package mailed by the Unabomber.
		Gelernter is convinced that organizing your life's information tidbits into a time-based "stream" is the way of the future.
	www.yalealumnimagazine.com /issues/03_11/gelernter.html (1719 words)

	Edge: DAVID GELERNTER
		David Gelernteris a treasure in the world of computer science...a unique and profoundly important presence in the information technology community.
		He is the most articulate and thoughtful of the great living practitioners, and his writings examine a surprising breadth of topics with humanity, moral seriousness and aesthetic passion....
		DAVID GELERNTER is a professor of computer science at Yale and chief scientist at Mirror Worlds Technologies (New Haven).
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/bios/gelernter.html (292 words)

	Commentary Magazine - 1939: The Lost World of the Fair, by David Gelernter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		David Gelernter is a polymath: a professor at Yale who specializes in the theory of artificial intelligence, a software designer, a painter, a classical composer, an author.
		...Gelernter's architectural descriptions of the fair are nearly endless ("The bluish helmet-like structure is lifted off the ground on a sort of colonnade, supported on vast curving steel ribs with holes punched out...
		...Gelernter is also of a religious cast of mind: the grandson of a rabbi, he attended a yeshiva in Manhattan in the late 19 7 0's, and took his B.A...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V100I3P59-1.htm (1777 words)

	SS > NF reviews > David Gelernter
		Gelernter's thesis is that the goals of the Artificial Intelligence programme cannot work, because AI misses out a crucial form of human thought, different in kind from our symbolic, analytical thought.
		As Gelernter points out, most top rank mathematicians, scientists and engineers emphasise the importance of beauty as a guiding principle for their subject.
		This is a simple powerful concept Gelernter and his co-workers have invented as the next step, breaking through beyond the desktop metaphor, as a new way to organise computer files, emails, electronic calenders, TV, and phone calls.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/bib/nf/g/gelerntr.htm (786 words)

	Application Development Trends - Software innovator David Gelernter says the desktop is obsolete
		It was Gelernter's renowned efforts in the '80s to develop parallel programming techniques that led to the Linda language and related distributed operating system.
		What Gelernter came up with in response to the ''stuff'' problem was a system in which the use of search technology is central.
		Gelernter largely begged off, although he pointed to some applications of P2P in his Scopeware stream-oriented efforts.
	www.adtmag.com /article.asp?id=7187 (974 words)

	research
		David Gelernter, Professor of Computer Science at Yale University, endured major injuries to his abdomen, chest, face and hands in the June 1993 bombing by Ted Kaczynski.
		In the field of computer science, Gelernter is most known for his programming language “Linda,” co-developed with Nicholas Carriero, that enables computers to link together to work on a single problem.
		Bill Joy said that Gelernter “is one of the most brilliant and visionary computer scientists of our time.” Gelernter predicted the rise of the World Wide Web.
	www.unc.edu /~kimyjo/research.html (410 words)

	Race Matters - New Economy: Selling a Vision of the Future Beyond Folders
		Though he rarely gives speeches, Professor Gelernter captivated the crowd with an hourlong performance that was deliberately provocative and salted with laugh lines.
		Gelernter wants to sell us all a solution: Scopeware, a set of computing tools for helping information organize itself in ways that users can readily understand.
		Professor Gelernter says he is not selling his wares so much as a new vision of the future.
	www.racematters.org /visionfuturebeyondfolders.htm (1255 words)

	David Gelernter: Faculty - Computer Science at Yale
		David Gelernter is professor of computer science at Yale, chief scientist at Mirror Worlds Technologies, contributing editor at the Weekly Standard and member of the National Council of the Arts.
		The "tuple spaces" introduced in Carriero and Gelernter's Linda system (1983) are the basis of many computer-communication and distributed programming systems worldwide.
		Gelernter's essays are widely anthologized (for example in J. Brockman, ed., "The Next Fifty Years: new essays from 25 of the world's leading scientists" (Vintage, 2002), R. Stolley, ed., "Life Magazine - Century of Change," (Little Brown, 2001), and the ACM's 50th Anniversary collection).
	www.cs.yale.edu /people/gelernter.html (325 words)

	July 10, 1998, Hour 2: David Gelernter on Technology
		If computer guru David Gelernter gets his way, your days of staring angrily at your computer desktop wondering where your important files have gotten to may soon be over.
		Gelernter, a computer science professor at Yale University, also champions the cause of beauty in computing.
		Tune into this hour of Science Friday for a conversation with David Gelernter about the state of the software industry and new technological advances, and how he and others see the future of your computing world.
	www.sciencefriday.com /pages/1998/Jul/hour2_071098.html (332 words)

	USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This is the conclusion of Yale University's David Gelernter, the world's foremost, best-selling philosopher computer scientist.
		Gelernter has a term for the information containers called windows.
		When programmers of 30 or more years ago created the system of windows and files and folders, they were thinking about computers by using the metaphor of a desk and filing cabinet.
	www.usatoday.com /money/perfi/columnist/maney/2002-02-20-maney.htm (816 words)

	PhD: David Gelernter
		In a previous post I mentioned a scholar called David Gelernter, who I had just come across for the first time.
		I studied Java for four years, Gelernter was one of the main inspirations for the creation of java.
		I've been reading quite a bit about Gelernter's thoughts on computing and the what the future has in store, and the more I read the more I am impressed.
	www.free-conversant.com /tipster/326 (282 words)

	Digerati - CH.10: David Gelernter - The Conservative
		In David's case, he was presenting a new theory of consciousness, incorporating the full spectrum of cognition, from "high focus" logical thinking to the dreamlike "low focus" thought that characterizes so much of our daily thinking patterns.
		THE GENIUS (W. Daniel Hillis): David's one of the pioneers in getting many computers to work together and cooperate on solving a single problem, which is the future of computing.
		Even when I disagree with him, which is often, I think he is a valuable contributor to the debates about the technologies we increasingly rely on and the unquestioned visions of the future that we've predicated on those technologies.
	www.edge.org /documents/digerati/Gelernter.html (2667 words)

	David Gelernter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Dr Gelernter's work on parallel programming, artificial intelligence, and information management has heavily influenced many of today's current generation tools; the programming language called "Linda" is used worldwide for parallel programming, and the central idea behind LindaLanguage (TupleSpace or GenerativeCommunication), now forms the basis of the "JavaSpaces" extension to Java being developed by Sun Microsystems.
		Dr Gelernter is the author of numerous books and articles on technology and the future of computing.
		Gelernter's right-wing political opinions in the middle of technical discussions.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?DavidGelernter (193 words)

	David Gelernter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		David Hillel Gelernter (born 1955) is a professor of computer science at Yale University.
		Gelernter Believed that the computer can free its users from being filing clerks by organizing user's data for them.
		Gelernter is a contributor to magazines such as City Journal, The Weekly Standard, and Commentary which are often considered conservative.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Gelernter (366 words)

	Computer Visions: A Conversation with David Gelernter
		When the history of computing is written, one inspiration for the creation of Java technology will be the work of David Gelernter.
		Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale and chief scientist at Mirror Worlds Technologies, is renowned for his insight into the relationship between information technology and the nature of the human mind.
		The author of many books, Gelernter has more recently articulated a vision of information technology that goes beyond the Web and our current world of files and folders to one centered around what he variously calls "life beams" or "information beams".
	java.sun.com /developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/gelernter_qa.html (2739 words)

	electric minds \| tomorrow \| interminds
		Gelernter's Mirror World was an organizing principle, an interconnected global consensual hallucination whose purpose was to build context around the dizzying founts of information that comprise our lives.
		The great mission behind his book (and, not coincidentally, most of computer science) is the hope that computers can serve us by giving perspective to the myriad threads of information produced by our global culture.
		I envision a combination of television, computer and in-class lectures that will offer top of the line information to all, cutting away the need for holding some students back for lack of funds while giving the rich the better advantage of higher learning.
	www.abbedon.com /electricminds/html/tom_interminds_1108.html (3269 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: 1939: The Lost World of the Fair: Books: David Gelernter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Gelernter presents a powerful argument(s) for the moral and motivational decline of our society since the late 1930's- as highlighted by the theme and focus of the 1939 World's Fair
		Gelernter is trying, with honesty and intelligence, to explore the question "What was it really like for our folks?" How can anyone _really_ know?
		William Manchester tried something like this in "The Glory and the Dream." Let's see, was it David Halberstam who recently wrote "The Fifties?" Gelernter's book is more readable, and more profound.
	www.amazon.co.uk /1939-World-Fair-David-Gelernter/dp/0028740025 (702 words)

	Power Line: A word fitly spoken
		Professor Gelernter introduces the subject for those who have not yet heard of Terri Schiavo: "The death-by-starvation facing Terri Schiavo was averted yesterday when the Florida legislature passed a bill letting Gov. Jeb Bush intervene to save her life.
		Professor Gelernter sees Terri Schiavo's cause as one larger than Schiavo's parents: "The rabbis speak often of the crucial religious obligation of visiting and comforting the sick.
		Professor Gelernter contrasts the license to kill granted by the abortion culture with the procedural protections surrounding capital punishment: "When we have condemned a criminal to death, it is remarkable how patient we are in extending his life.
	www.powerlineblog.com /archives/004906.php (1072 words)

	David Gelernter on mass murder on National Review Online
		David Gelernter on mass murder on National Review Online
		By David Gelernter, author of 1939: The Lost World of the Fair and other books.
		These are dead not merely to mourn but to honor, and we dare not fail to avenge them.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-gelernter091401.shtml (845 words)

	Paracelsus Rambles: David Gelernter is a Yale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		David Gelernter is a Yale computer scientist with a vision of how software ought to work.
		He formed a company called Scopeware to capitalize on those ideas.
		Incidentally, Gelernter is also famous for having been targeted and severly injured by the Unabomber.
	www.starchamber.com /2001/05/david_gelernter_is_a_yale.html (125 words)

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