Education
Gelernter studied for his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Rochester in 1957.
Gelernter studied for his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Rochester in 1957.
He implemented, with Nathaniel Rochester, a computer language for list processing within FORTRAN. The work for this was done, in fact, with Carl Gerberich at International Business Machines Corporation, to this end producing the Fortran list processing language (FLPL). His most ambitious project during his tenure at Stony Brook University was the SYNCHEM expert problem-solving system for the discovery of potential routes to the total synthesis of organic molecules through a self-guided intelligent search and application of its large knowledge base of graph transforms, rules and sophisticated heuristics representing generalized organic reactions organized around recognized functional groups. Professor Gelernter died on May 28, 2015.
