David A. Dalrymple
| David A. Dalrymple | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 23, 1991 |
| 🏡 Residence | San Francisco, California |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🎓 Alma mater | MIT University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| 💼 Occupation | |
David A. Dalrymple is an American computer scientist and neuroscientist, and is also known as Davidad (a composite of his first name and other initials).[citation needed] He is the youngest person to ever attend graduate school at MIT,[1][2] and is a visiting scientist at the neurobiology lab of MIT professor Edward Boyden.[3]
Biography
At age eight, Dalrymple was invited by Neil Gershenfeld to a White House event to demonstrate a device he had built using Lego Mindstorms.[4] At age nine, he joined Ray Kurzweil as a speaker at TED, and at age 14, he was the youngest person ever to enroll in an MIT graduate program.[5] In 2005, he obtained Bachelor of Science degrees in both Computer Science and Mathematics at age 13 from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.[6] He received a Master of Science degree in Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Media Lab with a 5.0 GPA at age 16[7] and was a student at Singularity University in 2010.[5] He was a graduate student in the Harvard Biophysics PhD program, studying worm C. elegans neurobiology and advanced microscopy, but dropped out.[8]
Research
Dalrymple has worked at the MIT Media Lab Center for Bits and Atoms on new programming paradigms such as "Reconfigurable asynchronous logic automata: (RALA)".[9] Early entrepreneurial efforts included selling photography and fractal art, fundraising for multiple sclerosis charity, and portable camera-like devices to “read” street signs and menus aloud into headphones (to assist visually impaired individuals).[7]
In 2012, Dalrymple obtained a research grant from the Thiel Foundation to establish new approaches to brain analysis and control.[8][10] He contributed to the OpenWorm project, which seeks to model the brains of the nematode C. elegans, then started NemaLoad (his own brain modeling project) to gather more neural data.[11][12][13]
He works for Twitter in Silicon Valley as a software engineer as of May, 2014.[14][15]
Activities
On November 30, 2011, Dalrymple lectured in Marvin Minsky's MIT class "Society of Mind" on the topic of "Mind vs. Brain: Confessions of a Defector".[16][17] He has written essays for Edge.org every year since 2007.[18]
References
- ↑ Xenopoulos, Jason (2015). "When Paths Diverge". Philosophy Now. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ↑ Enriquez, Juan (March 10, 2015). Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation are Changing Life on Earth. Penguin. ISBN 0698174984. Retrieved 23 December 2015. Search this book on
- ↑ Boyden, Ed. "David Dalrymple". Synthetic Neurobiology Group. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ↑ Tekla S. Perry (1 Jun 2008). "Ray Kurzweil and Neil Gershenfeld: Two Paths to the Singularity". IEEE Spectrum.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Nicola Jones (15 September 2010). "Education: Ten weeks to save the world". Nature. 467: 266–268. doi:10.1038/467266a. PMID 20844512.
- ↑ "Stories From The Class of 2005: Undergraduate Students".
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Nestle Very Best in Youth Winner 2009 - David Dalrymple". Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2011-02-12. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Davidad biography". Jan 2013.
- ↑ Neil Gershenfeld, David Dalrymple, Kailiang Chen, Ara Knaian, Forrest Green, Erik D. Demaine, Scott Greenwald, Peter Schmidt-Nielsen. "Principles of Programming Languages: Reconfigurable asynchronous logic automata". POPL '10 Proceedings of the 37th annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
- ↑ ""Nemaload" at Humanity+ meeting in San Francisco". 2012.
- ↑ Madrigal, Alexis (May 17, 2013). "Is This Virtual Worm the First Sign of the Singularity?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ↑ Ford, Adam (February 11, 2013). "David Dalrymple On Project NEMALOAD". 33rd Square. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ↑ Kurzweil, Ray (2012). How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed. New York: Viking Books. ISBN 978-0-670-02529-9. Search this book on
- ↑ "David Dalrymple". The Brain Preservation Foundation. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ↑ Lu, Yiren (March 12, 2014). "Silicon Valley's Youth Problem". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
- ↑ "MIT class 6.868 (Society of Mind) "Mind vs. Brain: Confessions of a Defector"".
- ↑ "David Dalrymple, 21-yr-old double PhD drop-out; simulator of worms (Personal biography)".
- ↑ David Dalrymple. "Edge essays".
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