Mendel Rosenblum


Mendel Rosenblum is a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and one of the co-founders of VMware.

Early life

Mendel Rosenblum was born in 1962. He graduated from the University of Virginia, where he received a bachelor of arts degree in Math. While at UVA, he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career

Rosenblum is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. His research group developed SimOS.
Rosenblum is a co-founder of VMware. He served as its chief scientist until his resignation on September 10, 2008, shortly after his wife Diane Greene was terminated 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.