One of the inventors of the original Tuple Spaces idea was David Gelernter. He was actually targeted by the Unabomber, and survived but was heavily hurt (https:

One of the inventors of the original Tuple Spaces idea was David Gelernter. He was actually targeted by the Unabomber, and survived but was heavily hurt (https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/21/magazine/the-unabomber-and-david-gelertner.html https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/21/magazine/the-unabomber-an...). David was a brilliant researcher, with lots of great ideas including Mirror Worlds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_Worlds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_Worlds). I sometimes wonder if what the Unabomber did to him in early 90s slowed David down, and made it harder for David's idea to get out there.