"Gelernter is one of the most brilliant and visionary computer scientists of our time."
- Bill Joy

"David Gelernter is one of the pioneers in getting many computers to work together and cooperate on solving a single problem, which is the future of computing."
- Danny Hillis

Gelernter prophesied the rise of the World Wide Web. He understood the idea half a decade before it happened.
- John Markoff

David Gelernteris a treasure in the world of computer science...a unique and profoundly important presence in the information technology community. He is the most articulate and thoughtful of the great living practitioners, and his writings examine a surprising breadth of topics with humanity, moral seriousness and aesthetic passion.... He's a full-out visionary, able to present ideas as wild and on the edge as anyone."
- Jaron Lanier

"There are lots of clever computer scientists; David Gelernter is one of the few who is wise."
- Cliff Stoll

"A community is not a community of disembodied spoken statements, in part because the most important aspect of the communication that people have is emotional, and one often communicates emotion not in terms of the text but as a subtext. The physical body is not irrelevant to a human community. The emotional subtext of human communication is crucial to human thought. It isn't a footnote. Too many computer scientists don't understand this."

DAVID GELERNTER is a professor of computer science at Yale and chief scientist at Mirror Worlds Technologies (New Haven). His research centers on information management, parallel programming, and artificial intelligence. The "tuple spaces" introduced in Nicholas Carriero and Gelernter's Linda system (1983) are the basis of many computer communication systems worldwide.

He is the author of Mirror Worlds, The Muse in the Machine, 1939: The Lost World of the Fair, and Drawiing a Life: Surviving the Unabomber.

Further reading on Edge: "The Conservative — David Gelernter" in Digerati; "The Second Coming — A Manifesto

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