David S. H. Rosenthal

David S. H. Rosenthal is a British-American computer scientist.

Biography

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.^[1][2] In 1985 he joined Sun Microsystems, and developed the NeWS Network extensible Window System with Gosling and co-authored a book on it.^[3] 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.^[4] In 1993 he became employee #4 and Chief Scientist at NVIDIA, and then joined Vitria technology in 1996. In 199 he rejoined Sun and was a distinguished engineer.^[5] He became chief scientist for the LOCKSS project, first at Sun and then since 2002 at Stanford University.^[6]

He holds 23 patents.^[6]

References

1. ^ 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. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~satya/docdir/p184-morris.pdf. 
2. ^ James Gosling; David Rosenthal (1986). "A window manager for bitmapped displays and Unix". Proceedings of an Alvey Workshop on Methodology of window management (Springer-Verlag): 115–128. ISBN 3-540-16116-3. 
3. ^ James Gosling; David S. H. Rosenthal; Michelle J. Arden (1989). The NeWS Book. Springer Verlag. pp. 34–36. ISBN 978-0-387-96915-2. http://books.google.com/books?id=xHSoK66z34YC&pg=34. 
4. ^ U.S. Patent 5,073,933 X window security system, filed December 1, 1989, issued December 17, 1991.
5. ^ "Biographical sketch: Dr. David S. H. Rosenthal, Distinguished Engineer". Oracle labs web site. http://labs.oracle.com/people/dshr/. Retrieved May 3, 2011. 
6. ^ ^{a b} "David S. H. Rosenthal". LOCKSS. http://www.lockss.org/lockss/David_S.H._Rosenthal. Retrieved May 3, 2011. 

External links

• DSHR's blog
• List of publications from the DBLP Bibliography Server.

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