David Stuart Holmes Rosenthal (born 1948 in

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) is a

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-American

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Biography

Rosenthal is the son of Michael David Holmes Rosenthal and Marjorie Mary "Molly" Rosenthal (both deceased). His brother Mark Geoffrey Thomas Rosenthal ran to be a member of the UK Parliament for Ynys Môn in 2015. Rosenthal received an MA degree from

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge or Oxford. ...

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, and a PhD from

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. In the 1980s he worked on the

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with

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. In 1985 he joined

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, and developed the

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Network extensible Window System with Gosling and co-authored a book on it. He developed the

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in 1988, and was issued a patent on a security system for X. In 1993 he became employee #4 and chief scientist at

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, and then joined Vitria Technology in 1996. In 1999 he rejoined Sun and was a distinguished engineer. He became chief scientist for the

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project, first at Sun and then since 2002 at

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. His research concerned

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long-term protection techniques. He holds 23 patents.

References

External links

DSHR's blog
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