Biography:David S. H. Rosenthal

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David Rosenthal
David S. H. Rosenthal at the Lamb by David Gerard, 2018-09-10 16-40-47.jpg
David S. H. Rosenthal, 10 September 2018
Born
Cambridge, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish, American
Websiteblog.dshr.org

David Stuart Holmes Rosenthal (born 1948 in Cambridge, United Kingdom ) is a British-American computer scientist.

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

  1. ↑ "Rosenthal: Obituary". Daily Post (Trinity Mirror). 12 December 2013. http://www.bmdsonline.co.uk/daily-post/obituary/rosenthal/33110062. 
  2. ↑ James H. Morris; Mahdev Satyanarayanan; Michael H. Conner; John H. Howard; David S.H. Rosenthal; F. Donelson Smith (March 1986). "Andrew, a Distributed Computing Environment". Communications of the ACM 29 (3): 184–201. doi:10.1145/5666.5671. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~satya/docdir/p184-morris.pdf. 
  3. ↑ James Gosling; David Rosenthal (1986). "A window manager for bitmapped displays and Unix". Proceedings of an Alvey Workshop on Methodology of window management. Cosener's House, Abingdon United Kingdom: Springer-Verlag. pp. 115–128. ISBN 3-540-16116-3. 
  4. ↑ James Gosling; David S. H. Rosenthal; Michelle J. Arden (1989). The NeWS Book. Springer Verlag. pp. 34–36. ISBN 978-0-387-96915-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=xHSoK66z34YC&pg=34. 
  5. ↑ U.S. Patent 5,073,933 X window security system, filed December 1, 1989, issued December 17, 1991.
  6. ↑ "Biographical sketch: Dr. David S. H. Rosenthal, Distinguished Engineer". Oracle labs web site. http://labs.oracle.com/people/dshr/. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "David S. H. Rosenthal". LOCKSS. http://www.lockss.org/lockss/David_S.H._Rosenthal. 
  8. ↑ David S. H. Rosenthal (October 2010). "Keeping Bits Safe: How Hard Can It Be?". ACM Queue 8 (10): 10. doi:10.1145/1866296.1866298. 

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