Mendel Rosenblum (born 1962) is a professor of

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at Stanford University and co-founder of

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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

. 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

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for fundamental contributions to computer operating systems and virtual machines.

References

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