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Biographical sketch
Dr. David S. H. Rosenthal Dr. David Rosenthal is investigating techniques for distributed fault tolerance in a project jointly funded by Sun Labs, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Science Foundation and Stanford University Libraries. The project is aimed at long-term preservation of the web editions of academic journals, such as those published by Stanford's Highwire Press. David joined Sun in 1985 from the Andrew project at Carnegie-Mellon University. He worked on window systems and was part of the team which developed the X Window System, now the open-source standard. He also worked on graphics hardware, the operating system kernel, and on system and network administration. David left Sun in 1993 to be Chief Scientist and employee #4 at Nvidia, now the leading supplier of high-performance graphics chips for the PC industry. He worked on I/O architecture. In 1996 he joined Vitria Technology, now a leading supplier of e-business infrastructure technology. He worked on reliable multicast protocols and on testing industrial-strength software. In 1999 he re-joined Sun. David received an MA degree from Trinity College, Cambridge and a Ph. D. from Imperial College, London. He is the author of several technical publications and holds 23 patents. His interests include backpacking (the picture was taken at the end of a 2-week trip in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) and the theatre. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
