American computer scientist at Yale — author of Mirror Worlds and The Muse in the Machine — one of the pioneers of parallel computing (Linda language) — who was nearly killed by a Unabomber mail bomb in 1993 — who has written extensively on American culture and the internet.
Creates the Linda parallel programming model — Gelernter and Nicholas Carriero's Linda (tuple space coordination language) was one of the first practical approaches to parallel computing; his Mirror Worlds (1991) predicted cloud computing, social media, and the digital twin concept.
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