David Weininger

David Weininger is a chemist and entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Daylight Chemical Information Systems, a company in Santa Fe, New Mexico that does rapid analysis of massive chemical databases. Weininger is the inventor of Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification (SMILES),^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]}

Weininger also was a director at the United States Environmental Protection Agency in the 1980s; his laboratory was responsible for the original Clean Air Act. Weininger did his PhD research in water chemistry.^{[citation needed]}

Miscellany

• Weininger lives in a house once owned by science-fiction writer Roger Zelazny.^{[citation needed]}
• He has an astronomical observatory and invites the local Santa Fe community to viewings during new moons.^{[citation needed]}
• Daylight Chemical has a large statue of a molecule near the entrance to the building.
• Weininger owns and flies a Russian fighter-bomber.^{[citation needed]}
• He once lived on a barge docked in Lake Ponchartrain in New Orleans.^{[citation needed]}
• Weininger claims his PhD is the only degree he was ever awarded. He did not graduate high school, nor did he receive his Bachelor's or Master's degrees.^{[citation needed]}
• He is a licensed flight instructor, and also holds certificates to fly many types of aircraft such as twin engines, seaplanes, and helicopters.^{[citation needed]}
• He is an experienced scuba diver who borrowed the towel of Douglas Adams once after a dive.^{[citation needed]}
• In an attempt to create a chocolate that is less stimulating to the nervous system, Weininger created a substance containing considerably more theobromine than chocolate of comparable mass and cacao concentration. Unsurprisingly, this "super-chocolate" tastes much better than the non-stimulative variety.^{[citation needed]}
• Quote : "Most people think you come to work to work and get away from people to think. I think it’s the opposite. You do your best thinking with people and your best work away from them"

References

Regis, Edward (2003). The Info Mesa: Science, Business, and New Age Alchemy on the Santa Fe Plateau. New York: Norton. 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

Info Mesa

Center for Adaptive Systems Applications (CASA)

Qforma

BiosGroup

Prediction Company

SMILES

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