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Dr. David Gelernter is a professor of computer science at Yale University, chief scientist at Mirror Worlds Technologies, a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, and a member of the National Council of the Arts. The author of eight books on topics ranging from poetry and artificial intelligence to aesthetics, technology, and computer science, Mr. Gelernter is also a widely published essayist on art, culture, politics, and Jewish thought and the author of a number of books, among them: Mirror Worlds(1992), The Muse in the Machine (1994), 1939: The Lost World of the Fair (1995), Drawing Life : Surviving the Unabomber (1997), and, most recently, Judaism: A Way of Being (2009).
Rabbi David Saperstein represents the national Reform Jewish Movement to Congress and the Administration as the Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. During his more than three-decade tenure, Rabbi Saperstein has headed several national religious coalitions and in 2009 was appointed by President Obama as a member of the first White House Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Also an attorney, Rabbi Saperstein teaches seminars in both First Amendment Church-State Law and in Jewish Law at Georgetown University Law School.