David Gelernter
David Hillel Gelernter (born March 5, 1955)[1] 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 is known for contributions to parallel computation and for books on topics including computed worlds, and what he sees as the destructive influence of liberal academia on American society, expressed in his book America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats).
Life and work
David 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 State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1982.
On June 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 his right hand and his right eye was permanently damaged.[2]
In July 2019, Gelernter challenged Darwin's theories.[3] According to Gelernter, "The origin of species is exactly what Darwin cannot explain".[3] In an article written in the Claremont Review of Book titled "Giving up Darwin" he affirms: "Darwin’s Doubt is one of the most important books in a generation. Few open-minded people will finish it with their faith in Darwin intact". [4]
Publications
Books
- With David Padua and Alexandru Nicolau. Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing. Hardcover ed. Mass. Instit. of Tech. Pr., 1990.
- With Suresh Jagannathan. Programming Linguistics. Hardcover ed. Mass. Instit. of Tech., 1990.
- With Nicholas Carriero. How to Write Parallel Programs: A first course. Hardcover ed. Mass. Instit. of Tech. Pr., 1990.
- Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean. 1st ed. Oxford Univ. Pr., 1992.
- The Muse in the Machine: Computerizing the Poetry of Human Thought. Hardcover ed. MacMillan, Inc., 1994.
- 1939: the Lost World of the Fair. Paperback ed. HarperCollins Pub., 1996.
- Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber. Hardcover ed. Simon & Schuster Adult Pub. Group, 1997.
- The Aesthetics of Computing. Paperback ed. Phoenix (Orion Books Ltd, UK), 1998.
- Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology. Paperback ed. Perseus Pub., 1998.
- Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion. Hardcover ed. Doubleday., 2007.
- Judaism: A Way of Being. Yale University Press, 2009.
- Gelernter, David (2012). America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats). Encounter Books. ISBN 978-1594036064.
- The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness. Liveright, 2016./W.W. Norton.
Videos
Mathematical Challenges to Darwin’s Theory of Evolution:
References
- ↑ "Birthdatabase Index". http://www.birthdatabase.com/cgi-bin/query.pl?textfield=david&textfield2=gelernter&age=.
- ↑ "Unabomber's act still affects prof. Gelernter". http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2007/01/29/unabombers-act-still-affects-prof-gelernter/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kabbany, Jennifer (July 30, 2019). "Famed Yale computer science professor quits believing Darwin’s theories". The College Fix. https://www.thecollegefix.com/famed-yale-computer-science-professor-quits-believing-darwins-theories/. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
- ↑ Gelernter, David. "Giving up Darwin". Claremont. https://www.claremont.org/crb/article/giving-up-darwin/. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
External links
- Giving Up Darwin by David Gelernter
