A short biography of David Edelsohn
I grew up in West Los Angeles, California where I attended the the Mirman School and then University High School. I informally contributed to various network television and cable television projects while growing up and maintain an interest in video special effects and computer technology usage in the entertainment industry. I attended the University of California, Los Angeles High School Scholars Program (HSSP) during my senior high school year and then double-majored in Astronomy and Physics at the University of California, Berkeley (Go Bears!). I was a recipient of the UC Berkeley Astronomy Department's Dorothea Klumpke-Roberts prize.

I returned to Southern California and entered the Astronomy graduate program at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California where I was a member of the Theoretical Astrophysics (TAPiR) group and the Caltech Concurrent Computing Program (C3P) which has evolved into the Caltech Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR). I received a M.Sc. in Astronomy and followed my advisor, Professor Geoffrey Fox, to Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York where I entered the Physics Department and became a member of the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center (NPAC).

I received a graduate fellowship from IBM and soon moved to the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Westchester County, New York (the northern suburbs of New York City) to finish my doctoral dissertation research. I spent six months of 1995 on assignment at the Maui High Performance Computing Center as liason from IBM Research Division. I received my Ph.D. in Physics from Syracuse University in November 1996.

Some additional photographs from my very early careers:

The latter photograph from the early 1970's was taken during one of my many visits to Ponyland, adjacent to an amusement park in Los Angeles called Beverly Park, where I would ride a horse named "Popcorn". The Beverly Center mall (including the L.A. Hard Rock Cafe) now stands where the park used to exist. Walt Disney took his children to the park and it was one of his inspirations for Disneyland.