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. (list of speaking engagements and published articles.)

Jim Mason (rosetta disk project manager) jimmason@longnow.org - Jim Mason is an artist and anthropologist, currently neck deep in the conceptual and design problems of creating a contemporary Rosetta Stone. Jim was trained as a cultural anthropologist at Stanford Univeristy and conducted extensive fieldwork in Papua New Guinea on creation stories and art. Out of his research, he created a project that brought 11 artists from Papua New Guinea to Stanford to create a permanent outdoor sculpture garden between 1994-6. His own creative work tends toward massive-scale Land-Art installations (Desert Forest, Temporal Decomposition), Internet-based artworks (Terrestrial Map), and various machine and pyrotechnic toys (Veg-O-Matic, V-8 Walking Meditation, V-8 Blender, Impotence Compensation Project).(list of speaking engagements.)

Kurt Bollacker (digital research director): kurt@longnow.org - Kurt is a computer scientist with a research background in the areas of machine learning, digital libraries, and electro-cardiographic modeling. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and was co-creator of the CiteSeer research tool while a researcher at The NEC Research Institute . He was the technical director of The Internet Archive, and a research engineer at the Duke University Medical Center. His personal interests include vegetarian cooking, travel, and helping to build the community at spaceship.com. (list of speaking engagements.)

 

 

Simone Davalos (office manager): simone@longnow.org - Simone received a B.A in English language and Literature from Yale University, where she was the props builder and assistant pyrotechnician for the Yale Precision Marching Band. She is a member of the fire art collective the Flaming Lotus Girls; a partner in QBox, a non-profit resource for electronic, mechanical and kinetic art; administrates for San Francisco's Power Tool Drag Races; is head logistician and gal friday for the Robotics Society of America, Robolympics, and Combots, and judges robot combat tournaments in her spare time, which is nonexistant. She enjoys filing and preaches stress relief through power tools.

 

Chris Rand, Rand Machine Works (machinist and fabricator:) - chrisr@longnow.org - Chris began working with us in mid 01997 and has been an invaluable asset to the Clock project. Chris has been a machinest/builder for many Americas Cup racing syndicates, Survival Research Labs, Skellington Studios and Industrial Light and Magic.

 

Erio Brown (machinist and fabricator:) - erio@longnow.org - Erio Started working with us in the second half of 01999 during the first prototype final construction. He has worked with Chris Rand in the past on numerous movie projects.

 

Paolo Salvagione (design engineer :) - paolos@longnow.org - Paolo is a world renowned bicycle designer and builder who joined our team in 02000 to help with the design and engineering of the second Clock prototype.

 

The Long Now Foundation also works with associates in other countries. Feel free to contact them if you have any questions about Long Now activities in their country or language:

Christoph Andris (Switzerland): ca_m2000@yahoo.com
Davide Bocelli (Italy): davide.bocelli@libero.it