Name David H. | Role Computer scientist | |
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Education Trinity College, Cambridge | ||
Distributed digital preservation in the cloud david s h rosenthal lockss programme
David S. H. Rosenthal is a British-American computer scientist.
Contents
- Distributed digital preservation in the cloud david s h rosenthal lockss programme
- Emulation and Virtualization as Preservation Strategies
- Biography
- References
Emulation and Virtualization as Preservation Strategies
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. In 1985 he joined Sun Microsystems, and developed the NeWS Network extensible Window System with Gosling and co-authored a book on it. 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. 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. He became chief scientist for the LOCKSS project, first at Sun and then since 2002 at Stanford University. His research concerned computer data storage long-term protection techniques.
He holds 23 patents.