Wayne Rosing (born 1946) is an American engineering manager. Rosing was an engineering manager at

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(DEC) and Data General in the 1970s. He became a director of engineering at

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in 1980. There he led the

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project, the forerunner to the

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. He then went on to work at

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in 1985. After managing hardware development for products such as the SPARCstation, he became manager of Sun Microsystems Laboratories in 1990. From 1992 through 1996 he headed the spin-off First Person, which developed the

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. He was then chief technology officer at Caere Corporation, which developed the

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product OmniPage. Rosing served as vice president of engineering at

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from January 2001 to May 2005. In May 2005 he was appointed a senior fellow in mathematical and physical sciences at the

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, and continued to serve as an advisor to Google. As a hobby throughout his career, Rosing built telescopes, telescope control systems, and ground telescope mirrors. At Davis, Rosing consulted on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope project (now the Vera C. Rubin Observatory). In 2005, Rosing founded Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network. Rosing was CEO and chief engineer at the firm. The August 2007 edition of '' The Sky at Night'' covered Rosing at Las Cumbres. In 2010, he co-endowed a chair in theoretical

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at the

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. It is held by Lars Bildsten.

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