Mendel Rosenblum

Mendel Rosenblum
Rosenblum at VMworld Europe 2008
Born 1962
Alma mater University of Virginia
University of California, Berkeley
Occupation Academic, businessman
Spouse(s) Diane Greene

Mendel Rosenblum (born 1962) is a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and one of the co-founders of VMware.

Early life

Mendel Rosenblum was born in 1962. He graduated from the University of Virginia, where he received a bachelor of arts degree in Math. While at UVA, he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa. At Stanford his research group developed SimOS.[1] He went on to earn a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career

Rosenblum is a professor of computer science at Stanford University.[2]

Rosenblum is a co-founder of VMware.[3] He served as its chief scientist until his resignation on September 10, 2008, shortly after his wife Diane Greene was terminated as the company's CEO.[3]

Since 2008, Rosenblum is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery[4] "for contributions to reinventing virtual machines",[5] and had previously received the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award (2002).[6]

References

  1. ↑ "VMware Leadership". Vmware.com. Retrieved 2011-12-16.
  2. ↑ "Stanford School of Engineering - Personnel Profile". Soe.stanford.edu. 1969-12-31. Archived from the original on 2005-03-17. Retrieved 2011-12-16.
  3. 1 2 "VMware loses Mendel Rosenblum, co-founder and husband of fired CEO Diane Greene". Networkworld.com. 2008-09-10. Archived from the original on 2011-06-13. Retrieved 2011-12-16.
  4. ↑ "ACM Fellows". Fellows.acm.org. Archived from the original on 2012-01-21. Retrieved 2011-12-16.
  5. ↑ "ACM: Fellows Award / Mendel Rosenblum". Fellows.acm.org. Retrieved 2011-12-16.
  6. ↑ "Mark Weiser Award". SIGOPS. Retrieved 2011-12-16.
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