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David Hillel Gelernter (born March 5, 1955) is an American artist, writer, and professor of computer science at Yale University. He is a former national fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and senior fellow in Jewish thought at the Shalem Center, and sat on the National Endowment for the Arts. He publishes widely; his work has appeared in the ''Wall Street Journal'', ''New York Post'', ''LA Times'', ''Weekly Standard'', ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'', and elsewhere. His paintings have been exhibited in New Haven and Manhattan. He is known for contributions to parallel computation and for books on topics including computed worlds ("Mirror Worlds"), and what he sees as the destructive influence of liberal academia on American society, expressed most recently in his book ''America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats)''. In 1993 he was sent a mail bomb by Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, which almost killed him and left him with some permanent disabilities: he lost the use of his right hand and his right eye was permanently damaged.〔(Unabomber’s act still affects prof. Gelernter )〕 ==Life and work== Gelernter received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in classical Hebrew literature from Yale University in 1976 and his Ph.D. from S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook in 1982. 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 (named for Linda Lovelace, an actress in the porn movie Deep Throat, mocking Ada's tribute to Ada Lovelace). Bill Joy cites Linda as the inspiration for many elements of JavaSpaces and Jini. On June 24, 1993, Gelernter was severely injured opening a mail bomb sent by the Unabomber. He recovered from his injuries, but his right hand and eye were permanently damaged. He chronicled the ordeal in his 1997 book ''Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber''. He helped found the company Mirror Worlds Technologies, which in 2001 released Scopeware software using ideas from his 1992 book ''Mirror Worlds''. Gelernter believed that computers can free users from being filing clerks by organizing their data. The company announced it would "cease operations effective May 15, 2004". A related company Mirror Worlds, LLC recently had its patent infringement verdict against Apple, Inc. overturned in the Eastern District of Texas. In 2003, he was nominated became a member of the National Council on the Arts. Gelernter contributes to magazines such as ''City Journal'', ''The Weekly Standard'', and ''Commentary'' which are generally considered neoconservative. For seven months, he contributed a weekly op-ed column to the ''LA Times''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Gelernter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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