DAVID WEININGER

'David Weininger' is a chemist and entrepreneur. He is founder of Daylght Chemical Information Systems, a company in Santa Fe, New Mexico that does rapid analysis of of massive chemical databases. Weininger is the inventor of Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification (SMILES), a universal language for chemical compounds. Weininger and his team produced other specialized software packages for working chemists, including Rubicon, a rule-based geometry program for creating 3-D forms, and Thor, a client-server database for chemical information.

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Miscellany

★ Weininger lives in a house once owned by science-fiction writer Roger Zelazny.

★ He has an astronomical observatory and invites the local Santa Fe community to viewings during new moons.

★ Daylight Chemical has a large statue of a molecule near the entrance to the building.

★ Weininger owns and flies a Russian fighter-bomber.

★ He once lived on a barge docked in the Mississippi River.

References

: The Info Mesa: Science, Business, and New Age Alchemy on the Santa Fe Plateau, Regis, Edward, , , Norton, 2003, ISBN 0-393-02123--8
: Ed Regis, "Greetings from the Info Mesa," Wired Magazine, (June 2000) p. 337.link
: Devon Jackson, " Meeting of the Minds," Santa Fean, (Nov/Dec 2001) p. 50.

See also

:Center for Adaptive Systems Applications (CASA)
:Qforma
:BiosGroup
:Prediction Company