David Stuart Holmes Rosenthal (born 1948 in Cambridge, United Kingdom) is a British-American computer scientist.
David Rosenthal | |
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 David S. H. Rosenthal, 10 September 2018 | |
| Born | 1948 (age 75–76) |
| Nationality | British, American |
| Website | blog |
Biography
Rosenthal is the son of Michael David Holmes Rosenthal and Marjorie Mary "Molly" Rosenthal (both deceased).[1] His brother Mark Geoffrey Thomas Rosenthal ran to be a member of the UK Parliament for Ynys Môn in 2015.
Rosenthal received an MA degree from Trinity College, Cambridge, England, and a PhD from Imperial College, London. In the 1980s he worked on the Andrew Project at Carnegie Mellon University with James Gosling.[2][3]In 1985 he joined Sun Microsystems, and developed the NeWS Network extensible Window System with Gosling and co-authored a book on it.[4]He developed the Inter-Client Communication Conventions Manual (ICCCM) for the X Window System in 1988, and was issued a patent on a security system for X.[5]In 1993 he became employee #4 and chief scientist at Nvidia, and then joined Vitria Technology in 1996. In 1999 he rejoined Sun and was a distinguished engineer.[6] He became chief scientist for the LOCKSS project, first at Sun and then since 2002 at Stanford University.[7]His research concerned computer data storage long-term protection techniques.[8]
He holds 23 patents.[7]
References
External links
- DSHR's blog
- David S. H. Rosenthal at DBLP Bibliography Server
