Wayne Rosing

Wayne Rosing has been involved as a key player in several landmark projects in the computing industry since the late 1970s. Gaining experience as an engineering manager at DEC and Data General in the 1970s, he became a director of engineering at Apple Computer in the early 1980s. There he led the Apple Lisa project, the forerunner to the Macintosh. He then went on to work at Sun Microsystems and headed the spin-off First Person. At Sun Labs, his team developed Java.Rosing served as Vice President of Engineering at Google from January 2001 to May 2005. He continues to serve as an advisor to Google and is now a senior fellow in mathematical and physical sciences at the University of California, Davis. [http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=7349] He splits his time between Silicon Valley and the Santa Barbara area.

As a hobby, Rosing grinds telescope mirrors. He hand machined a corner reflector that NASA has put on the Moon, for use in laser interferometry (to measure the Moon's orbit more precisely than was possible before).

The August 2007 edition of The Sky at Night shows Rosing working at Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope.

References

* [http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=7349 MPS Senior Fellow Appointed] from UC Davis News & Information
* [http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease46.html Google Names Wayne Rosing New Vice President Of Engineering] from Google Press Center