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Unabomber's act still affects prof. Gelernter

Computer science prof. opposed to publishing prisoner’s writings

Staff Reporter
Published Monday, January 29, 2007

Fourteen years after opening a package bomb sent by the Unabomber, Yale computer science professor David Gelernter ’76 still feels pain every day, and more may soon be coming.

After nine years in prison, Ted Kaczynski has returned to both the headlines and the courtroom as he challenges a government plan to auction off his expansive writings to raise restitution for his victims. But as Kaczynski fights the auction on First Amendment grounds, some of his victims, including Gelernter, have raised concerns about the possibility that Kaczynski’s musings about bombmaking could wind up...

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