Mendel Rosenblum | |
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 Rosenblum at VMworld Europe 2008 | |
| Born | 1962 (age 61–62) |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley University of Virginia |
| Spouse | Diane Greene |
Mendel Rosenblum (born 1962) is a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and co-founder of VMware.
Mendel Rosenblum was born in 1962.[ citation needed ] He attended the University of Virginia, where he received a degree in mathematics. While at UVA, he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa.
He graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, [1] where he met his future wife and co-founder of VMware, Diane Greene.
Rosenblum is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. [2] His research group developed SimOS. [3]
Rosenblum is a co-founder of VMware. [4] He served as its chief scientist until his resignation on September 10, 2008, shortly after his wife Diane Greene stepped down as the company's CEO. [4]
Since 2008, Rosenblum is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery [5] "for contributions to reinventing virtual machines", [6] and had previously received the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award (2002). [7]
In 2009, he was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering for fundamental contributions to computer operating systems and virtual machines.
John Kenneth Ousterhout is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He founded Electric Cloud with John Graham-Cumming. Ousterhout was a professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley where he created the Tcl scripting language and the Tk platform-independent widget toolkit, and proposed the idea of coscheduling. Ousterhout led the research group that designed the experimental Sprite operating system and the first log-structured file system. Ousterhout also led the team that developed the Magic VLSI computer-aided design (CAD) program.
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Nicholas (Nick) William McKeown FREng, is a Senior Fellow at Intel, a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments at Stanford University, and a Visiting Professor at Oxford University. He has also started technology companies in Silicon Valley.
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Andrea Carol Arpaci-Dusseau is an American computer scientist interested in operating systems, file systems, data storage, distributed computing, and computer science education. She is a professor of computer sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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