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David learned

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

He is the son of the computer scientist Herbert Gelernter . His ancestors lived in Hamburg , some of them had immigrated there from Eastern Europe ; another branch of his family comes from the southern United States.

Learned studied at the Yale University first Jewish Studies (master's degree in 1977), broke a promotion but starting to study the Talmud in a yeshiva in New York and in 1982 in computer science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY) at Arthur Jay Bernstein is doing her PhD ( An integrated microcomputer network for experiments in distributed programming ).

In 1993 he was seriously injured by a letter bomb from the Unabomber . His right hand and eye were permanently damaged. He wrote about it in 1997, Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber . His increased turn to the Jewish religion following the assassination was reflected in his book Judaism (2009). He has been a visual artist (painter) since his youth and deals with social and cultural aspects of the computer.

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

His book Mirror Worlds from 1991 is widely regarded as visionary with regard to the developments of the World Wide Web . Some of the ideas were also implemented in software concepts (Lifestream) by the company Mirror Worlds (Scopeware, 2001), which he co-founded, of which he was chief scientist and which was in operational business until 2004. Lifestream anticipated many web-based streaming media communication concepts that would later become widespread . Mirror Worlds sued Apple for patent infringement and was awarded around $ 625 million in 2010 by a Texas court. In 2011, however, a federal judge at the appeals court overturned the decision that Apple had violated Mirror Worlds' patents. In 2016, Apple paid the patent exploiter $ 25 million.

His tuple space concept and his book Mirror Worlds are also said to have inspired the development of the Java programming language (and Linda and the tuple space concept especially for JavaSpaces ).

Learned also regularly wrote 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 spring 2010 he has also been a columnist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . He has been a member of the Advisory Board of the National Endowment for the Arts since 2003 and was on the Council of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) from 2003 to 2006. He is a Senior Fellow for Jewish Studies at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem .

Fonts

  • 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.
  • 1939 - the lost world of the fair. Free Press, New York 1995, Harper Collins, 1996 (novel).
  • Machine Beauty: Elegance and the heart of technology. Perseus Publishing, 1998.
  • with Nicholas Carriero How to write parallel programs - a first course. MIT Press, 1990.
  • with David Padua, Alexandru Nicolau: Language and Compilers for Parallel Computing. MIT Press, 1990.
  • with Suresh Jagannathan: Programming Linguistics. MIT Press, 1990.
  • The aesthetics of computing. Orion Books, 1998.
  • Drawing life - surviving the Unabomber. Free Press, Simon and Schuster, 1997.
  • 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, 2012, ISBN 978-1-59403-606-4 .
  • The Tides of Mind. Liveright Publishing / WW Norton & Company, 2016.

Web links

Commons : David Gelernter  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The images dancing in David Gelernters head , The chronicle of higher education, 2009
  2. ↑ a b Interview with a trained person on Deutschlandfunk on February 27, 2012
  3. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Helmut Martin-Jung Der Anti-Steve-Jobs , Süddeutsche Zeitung Online, October 8, 2010
  5. ↑ Apple wins: Judge reverses $ 625.5 million patent judgment previously awarded to Mirror Worlds , April 4, 2011
  6. ↑ https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Document-Stream-Apple-aid-25-Millionen-Dollar-an-Patentverwerter-3263618.html
  7. ↑ Interview by Gelernter with Janice Heiss 2003, Sun Developer Network
personal data
SURNAME Learned, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Learned, David Hillel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1955