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 Apple Computer in 1980. There he led the Apple Lisa project, the forerunner to the

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. He then went on to work at Sun Microsystems in 1985. After managing hardware development for products such as the

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, 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

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. 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

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project. In 2005, Rosing founded

Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) is a network of astronomical observatories run by a non-profit private operating foundation directed by the technologist Wayne Rosing. Its offices are in Goleta, California. The telescopes are located at both northe ...

. Rosing was CEO and chief engineer at the firm. The August 2007 edition of ''

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'' covered Rosing at Las Cumbres. In 2010, he partially endowed a professor in theoretical astrophysics at the

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held by

Lars Bildsten Lars Bildsten (born 1964) is an American astrophysicist, best known for his work on the physics of white dwarfs and their explosions as Type Ia supernovae. He is the sixth director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the Universit ...

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