Mendel Rosenblum

"Virtualization Renaissance"

Thursday, April 10, 2008, 3 p.m.
Sandford Fleming #1105

Abstract: Computer system hardware-level Virtual Machines (i.e. VMs whose interface matches the physical machine) went from a vibrant research community with significant impact on the computing industry in the 1970s, to near extinction in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Today, there has been a resurgence of interest in this technology, both in the research community with multiple papers in the latest operating systems conferences, and in the commercial marketplace with Fortune 500 companies deploying the technology for their enterprise computing needs.

Bio: Mendel Rosenblum is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Departments at Stanford University. Professor Rosenblum research interests include system software, distributed systems, and computer architecture. He has published research in the area of disk storage management, computer simulation techniques, scalable operating system structure, virtualization computer security, and mobility.

Professor Rosenblum is also a co-founder VMware Inc. As the Chief Scientist of VMware he helped design and build virtualization technology for commodity computing platforms. He is a 1992 recipient of the National Science Foundation's National Young Investigator award and a 1994 recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship. Rosenblum was a co-winner of the 1992 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award and the 2002 ACM/SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award for creativity and innovation in operating systems research. He received a BA in Math from the University of Virginia (1984) and a MS (1989) and PhD (1992) in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.