David Gelernter

Quick Facts

Full Name	David Gelernter
Occupation	Computer Scientist
Date Of Birth	Mar 5, 1955(1955-03-05)
Age	69
Country	United States
Birth City	United States of America
Horoscope	Pisces

David Gelernter Biography

David Gelernter is one of the most popular and richest Computer Scientist who was born on March 5, 1955 in United States of America, United States. His father, David Gelernter was a professor of computer science, Herbert Gelernter, who taught at Stony Brook University. He earned the 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 1993, he was mailed the mail bomb of Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber. It nearly killed him , and caused him to suffer permanent impairments: he was unable to use his hand, and the right eye of his was damaged permanently.

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”. On May 23, 2013, a related company Mirror Worlds, LLC filed a complaint of patent infringement against Apple Inc., Best Buy Co. Inc., Dell Inc., Hewlett Packard Co., Lenovo (United States) Inc., Lenovo Group Ltd., Microsoft Corporation, Samsung Electronic USA Inc, Samsung TeleCommunications America, LLC in the Texas Eastern District Court (case no. 6:2013cv00419). In August 2016, the case was dismissed with prejudice. The case has been considered by the Supreme Court of the United States but a petition for writ of certiorari was denied on June 24, 2013.

In America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats), Gelernter argues that American higher education no longer cares about producing well-rounded and cultured students; academics instead believe their role is to dictate how other Americans live and think. Stephen Daisley wrote in Commentary magazine that Gelernter portrays Obama’s presidency as a symbol of the failure of American education and the success of its replacement with a liberal indoctrination system. As a solution, Gelernter proposes moving all of human knowledge to online servers so that the in-person college experience can be replaced by user-driven self-education. Daisley wrote, “America-Lite is lean, incisive convincing, delightfully indelicate, and, in a break from the conventions of the literature on education, honest. It is a fine dissection—de-construction, if you must—of the corruption of higher education and the resulting debasement of political culture. If it makes its way on to a single college reading list, Hell will have frozen over.”

On the 24th of June, 1993 Gelernter suffered a serious injury by a bomb that was dropped on his mail from the group Unabomber. Gelernter was able to recover from the injuries, however his eye and right hand were permanently injured. He wrote about his experiences through his book from 1997. Drawing Life: Surviving the unimaginable.

David Gelernter Net Worth

David Gelernter is one of the richest Computer Scientist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Gelernter 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The 1980s were when he produced important contributions to the area of parallel computation and specifically, the tuple-space coordination model, which is embodied through Jini, the Linda program system (named after Linda Lovelace the actress from the porn film Deep Throat, mocking Ada’s tribute to the scientist and the very first named computer programmer, Ada Lovelace). Bill Joy cites Linda as the source of inspiration for many aspects of JavaSpaces as well as Jini.

The Gelernter book Mirror Worlds (1991) “prophesied the rise of the World Wide Web.” Bill Joy, founder and Chief Scientist at Sun Microsystems, says Gelernter is “one of the most brilliant and visionary computer scientists of our time.” The New York Times called Gelernter a computer science “rock star”.

In 2003, he became a member of the National Council on the Arts.

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David Ranked on the list of most popular Computer Scientist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. David Gelernter celebrates birthday on March 5 of every year.