Mendel Rosenblum

Title: Co-founder and chief scientist

Company: VMware Inc., Palo Alto, Calif. (a subsidiary of EMC Corp.)

Achievements: Rosenblum founded VMware in 1998 along with Scott Devine, Edward Wang and Edouard Bugnion. In addition to working at VMware, Rosenblum is an associate professor of computer science at Stanford University, where he leads a group focused on operating systems research. He and his students developed the Hive operating system, the SimOS machine simulator and the Disco virtual machine monitor. In 2002, he received the ACM/SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award for his creativity, innovation and vision in operating systems research.