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Friday, June 3, 2011
 
 
SCHOLARS & FELLOWS
 
David Gelernter
Former National Fellow
 
 
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RESEARCH AREAS
 
  • American history
  • Religion, culture, and science
Biography
 
David Gelernter is a professor of computer science at Yale University, chief scientist at Mirror Worlds Technologies, a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, and a member of the National Council of the Arts. The author of eight books on topics ranging from poetry and artificial intelligence to aesthetics, technology, and computer science, Mr. Gelernter is also a widely published essayist on art, culture, politics, and Jewish thought. His latest book is Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion (Random House, 2007).
 
Experience
  • Professor of Computer Science, Yale University, 1982-present
  • Chief Scientist, Mirror Worlds Technologies
  • Contributing Editor, The Weekly Standard
  • Syndicated Essayist, New York Times Syndicate
  • Board Member, National Endowment for the Arts
  • Senior Fellow in Jewish Thought, Shalem Center, Jerusalem, 2005
  • Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 2005
  • Culture Columnist, New York Post, 1997
 
Education
 
Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook
M.A., B.A., Yale University

 

 
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Articles and Commentary

China is our new Cold War enemy.

Learning to understand images as we do language is one of the great unsolved problems of modern intellectual life. Computer science helps because recursion helps.

The Bush administration could leave the world a parting gift by calling on the United Nations to enforce its own charter and boot out members that preach the destruction of Israel.

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Books Americanism

This book is astartlingly original argument about the religious meaning of America and why it is loved--and hated--with so much passion at home and abroad.

 
 
 
Speeches and Testimony Does World War II Still Have a Meaning?

We need to study not only the Holocaust, the Gulag, and Japanese atrocities, butalso thephenomenon of moral collapse as it was connected with the doctrine of state paganism.

A Religious Idea Called "America"

The complete text of the March 2006 Bradley Lecture presented by David Gelernter.

New Institutions for a New Cultural Establishment

For the first time in its history, the United States is worse off than it used to be, and new cultural institutions are needed to remedy the situation.