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Yale Researcher to Discuss Software's FutureThe Windows, Macintosh and other operating systems that people use to interact with computers are an obsolete artifact of the early days of computer science, soon to be replaced by software that allows users to retrieve information from a global network from any computer, anywhere, at any time. David Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale University; and a prolific author of such works as "The Muse in the Machine: Computerizing the Poetry of Human Thought", "Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology", and "Surviving the Unabomber," will share his thoughts on the future of computer software in a lecture at the National Science Foundation. The lecture is open to the media and the public. In Gelernter's visionary "Lifestreams" concept, the focus of his research at Yale, computer data is not stored on a particular machine, but is "afloat in cyberspace," and available whenever a user wants it, through any computer connected to a network. Gelernter has received a number of NSF grants, including a 1987 Presidential Young Investigator Award, for his work on computer languages.
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