Alexander Rose
executive director
The Long Now Foundation
zander@longnow.org
Alexander Rose (executive director):- zander@longnow.org - Hired as the first employee of The Long Now Foundation in February of 01997. Alexander has been an artist in residence at Silicon Graphics Inc., project manager for Shamrock Communications, and the director of Spirit Racing Systems. Alexander has attended the Art Center College of Design and graduated with a bachelor of arts honors degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Industrial Design in 01995.
As the director of Long Now, Alexander has facilitated projects such as the
10,000
Year Clock with Danny
Hillis, The Rosetta Project,
Long Bets, Long Server, Time Line,
and others. Alexander shares several design patents on the 10,000 Year Clock
with Danny Hillis, the first prototype of which is in the Science
Museum of London.
Alexander's personal interests include rock climbing, snowboarding, mountaineering, mountain bike riding, Bio Diesel vehicles, and travel. Alexander competes avidly in robotic combat where his robots have won over six world championship titles appearing in the TV show BattleBots. Alexander also enjoys building large pyrotechnic displays for the Burning Man festival and other dangerous machines. Alexander is a nominating judge at the Webby's and founded the Robot Fighting League. In his past he was also a world champion paintball player holding multiple world titles with his team the Ironmen from 1990 through 1995. At Carnegie Mellon University Alexander was the lead designer for a record setting human power vehicle team.
Recent reviews, articles, appearances etc...
- On the Discovery Channel show Power Tool Drag Races (Feb-Apr 02005)
- Winner of the 02004 Popular Science design contest (July 02004 issue)
- Multiple product reviews in Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools
- Several reviews in The Whole Earth Magazine 02003 Winter Edition
- Listed in Richard Saul Wurman's "Who's Really Who, The most creative individuals in the USA"
- Review in the March 02002 Wired Magazine of Icosa Structures
- Review in the July 02001 Wired Magazine of the AFS Trinity Flywheel
- Review in the April 02001 Wired Magazine of a Honda Generator.
- Review in February 02001 Wired Magazine of Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio.
- Several reviews in The Whole Earth Magazine 02001 Tool Edition.
Speaking engagements:
- Digits Fugit! Preserving Knowledge into the Future (keynote), Boston, Nov 3rd 02005
- Special Libraries Association, San Francsico, Mar. 22nd 02005
- Plan B Democracy Conference in Helsinki, Finland, January 26th 02005
- David H. Liu Memorial Lecture Series in Design October 28th 02004
- Time In Design Conference in Eindhoven Holland, October 16-17, 02003
- Time Symposium (NAWCC) in St. Louis MO, October 22-25, 02003
- Long Term Preservation Conference, in Florence Italy, December 14th 02002.
- Xerox PARC forum, in Palo Alto CA, December 6th, 02001
- TED11 conference in Monterey CA, February 22, 02001
- Open Minds Masterclass in Glasgow Scotland, January 30, 02001
- Doors of Perception Conference in Amsterdam, November 11, 02000
- Viper Conference in Basel Switzerland, October 28, 02000
- 10,000 Year Library Conference, June 30, 02000
- University of San Francisco, October 7, 01999 & May 3, 02000
- SETI Institute, September 25, 01999
- Long Island University, Turning 2000 conference, October 15th, 01999
- Stanford Graduate Product Design, March, 01998
Jim Mason
rosetta disk project manager
The Long Now Foundation
jimmason@longnow.org
Upcoming speaking engagements: TBA
Past speaking engagements:
- Asilomar Microcomputing Workshop, April 25-27, 02001
- Northern California Law Libraries conference March 17th in Sacramento, CA, 02001
- 10,000 Year Library Conference, June 30, 02000
- Asilomar Microcomputing Workshop, April, 02000
- Linguistic Society of America conference in Washington DC, January 5-7, 02001.
Kurt Bollacker
digital research director
The Long Now Foundation
kurt@longnow.org
Speaking engagements:
- DLF Fall Forum 2004 On Digital Preservation and the Long Now's File Conversion Project
- Asilomar Microcomputing Workshop, April 25-27, 02000
