Mendel Rosenblum

Mendel Rosenblum is an American computer scientist, professor at Stanford University. He is known for the development of virtual machines, that is simulation software of computers and operating systems.

Rosenblum studied mathematics at the University of Virginia with a bachelor's degree in 1984 and a Master's degree in 1989 from the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his doctorate in computer science in 1991. He is an associate professor at Stanford.

At Stanford, he developed with his group the SimOS simulation program.

He was a senior scientist (Chief Scientist ) and co-founder of VMware, but came back in 2008 after his wife Diane Greene was replaced as chief executive officer. Rosenblum, Diane Greene, Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion Y. founded VMware in 1998. Wang and Devine are there Principal Engineers.

He is at the FLASH project at Stanford involved (2012), a new operating system for multiprocessor computer systems with distributed memory (shared memory multiprocessor system ).

In 2009 he received, Edouard Bugnion, Scott Devine, Jeremy Sugerman and Edward Wang the ACM Software System Award for VMware Workstation 1.0 for Linux. In 2008 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM ) and received the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Writings

• Rosenblum et al Virtual machine monitors: current technology and future trends, Computers, Issue 5, 2005