David Dalrymple (computer scientist)
David Dalrymple | |
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Born | July 23, 1991 |
Residence | San Francisco, California |
Nationality | American |
Fields | Computer science Neuroscience |
Alma mater | MIT University of Maryland |
David Dalrymple is an American computer scientist and neuroscientist. 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
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