Mendel Rosenblum is an associate professor of Computer Science

Computer science

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 at Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

, and one of the co-founders of VMware

VMware

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. Since 2008 he is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery

Association for Computing Machinery

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 "for contributions to reinventing virtual machines", and had previously received the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award (2002). He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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 and BA in Math from the University of Virginia

University of Virginia

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. At Stanford his research group developed SimOS

SimOS

SimOS was a full system simulator, developed in the Stanford University in the late nineties in the research group of Mendel Rosenblum. It was enabled to run IRIX 5.3 on MIPS, and Unix variants on Alpha...

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On September 10, 2008, Rosenblum resigned from VMware

VMware

VMware, Inc. is a company providing virtualization software founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004, and operates as a separate software subsidiary ....

 where he was the company's chief scientist after his wife Diane Greene

Diane Greene

Diane Greene was a founder of VMware and the CEO from 1998 to 2008.Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion founded VMware in 1998....

was terminated as the company's CEO.