National Council on the Arts Members

David Gelernter (Woodbridge, CT)

David Gelernter (Woodbridge, CT) is an author, art critic, painter, and Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. He is chief scientist at Mirror Worlds Technologies in New Haven and chief technology advisor for the K12 Internet school. His articles, essays, and fiction have appeared in numerous publications including Commentary, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, ArtNews, the National Review, and Time Magazine. His books include Mirror Worlds (1991), The Muse in the Machine: Computerizing the Poetry of Human Thought (1994), 1939: The Lost World of the Fair (1995), Drawing Life (1997), and Machine Beauty (1998). He is currently the art critic for the Weekly Standard and was previously a culture columnist at the New York Post. An exhibition of his recent paintings was hosted by Yale's Slifka Center gallery in 2001. Dr. Gelernter received his B.A. and M.A. from Yale University in Classical Hebrew Literature and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

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