Mendel Rosenblum (born 1962) is a professor of
Computer Science
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at
Stanford University and co-founder of
VMware
VMware, Inc. is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture.
VMware's desktop software ru ...
.
Early life
Mendel Rosenblum was born in 1962. He attended the
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United States, with highly selective ad ...
, where he received a degree in mathematics. While at UVA, he was a member of
Phi Sigma Kappa
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.
He graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science from the
University of California, Berkeley
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, where he met his future wife and co-founder of VMware,
Diane Greene.
Career
Rosenblum is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. His research group developed
SimOS.
Rosenblum is a co-founder of
VMware
VMware, Inc. is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture.
VMware's desktop software ru ...
.
[ 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.]
Since 2008, Rosenblum is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to reinventing virtual machines", and had previously received the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award (2002).
In 2009, he was elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization. The National Academy of Engineering is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of ...
for fundamental contributions to computer operating systems and virtual machines.
References
Living people
1962 births
University of Virginia alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Stanford University School of Engineering faculty
Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering faculty
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
American company founders
Businesspeople from California
20th-century American Jews
21st-century American Jews
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