David Gelernter

David Gelernter

David Hillel Gelernter (born March 5, 1955) is an 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, having been mailbombed by the Unabomber and for books on topics including computed worlds ("Mirror Worlds"), and what he see 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)"

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