Musing about Cantor-Fitzgerald and 9/11.

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4. Gelernter stops teaching amid Yale review over his Epstein emails

https://yaledailynews.com/articles/gelernter-stops-teaching-amid-yale-review-caused-by-his-epstein-emails

Gelernter stops teaching amid Yale review over his Epstein emails

Yale computer science professor David Gelernter — who has defended his recently released email correspondence with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — wrote to his students on Tuesday that he was “relieved” of teaching their class.

By Leo Nyberg, Asher Boiskin & Jerry Gao
Staff Reporters
9:15 p.m., February 10, 2026

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Gelernter and Epstein maintained substantial email correspondence between 2009 and 2015, which the U.S. Department of Justice released in late January among some three million other files related to Epstein. In their exchanges, Gelernter and Epstein planned meetings and discussed art, business and women. Gelernter described an undergraduate as a “v small goodlooking blonde” in an October 2011 email to Epstein that Gelernter has characterized as a recommendation letter.

Gelernter defended that message last week in an email to Jeffrey Brock ’92, the dean of Yale’s School of Engineering & Applied Science, on which Gelernter copied Computer Science department chair Holly Rushmeier. In the email, which Gelernter forwarded to the News, he wrote that he had kept “the potential boss’s habits in mind” — a reference to Epstein — when he sent it.

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