Mendel Rosenblum

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Mendel Rosenblum
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Rosenblum at VMworld Europe 2008
Born1962
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.

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Early life

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.

Career

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.

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