Mendel Rosenblum (born 1962) is a professor of

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and co-founder of VMware.

Early life

Mendel Rosenblum was born in 1962. He attended the

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, where he received a degree in mathematics. While at UVA, he was a member of

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. He graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science from the

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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. 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

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"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

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for fundamental contributions to computer operating systems and virtual machines.

References

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