David Gelernter is professor of computer science at Yale; former national fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and senior fellow in Jewish thought at Shalem Center, Jerusalem. He publishes widely, in the Weekly Standard, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Wall Street Journal & elsewhere.

Exclusively represented by BrightSight Speakers, he was a board member at the National Endowment for the Arts 2003-2006, weekly culture-&-politics columnist at New York Post (1996-1997) and Los Angeles Times (2005). His essays are widely anthologized. He was Ray Kurzweil’s opponent in a public debate at MIT (fall 2006, “Can we build minds out of software?), & Al Gore’s in a Time Magazine written debate on facing pages (spring 1995, ”Are computers good for our schools?”). He’s published short stories, a novella (Swan House) and a novel (1939: The Lost World of the Fair). A museum show of his paintings took place at the YU Museum in Manhattan.

His book Mirror Worlds (1991) "prophesied the rise of the World Wide Web," (John Markoff, technology writer and New York Times reporter). Bill Joy, founder and Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems, says Gelernter is "one of the most brilliant and visionary computer scientists of our time.” The New York Times called him a computer science "rock star" (7/2/01). His book, Judaism (2009), is "one of the most original interpretations of Judaism I have ever read" (Michael Novak) and "a new Psalter" (Cynthia Ozick).

Gelernter speaks on technology, on the pressing question of whether we can build a mind out of software, on US culture (especially the present, & radically different future, of education), & on the arts & post-abstract "word paintings."