Alexander Rose

Who is Alexander Rose?

Hired as the first employee of The Foundation in February of 01997. Alexander

has been an artist in residence at Silicon

Graphics Inc., a project manager for Shamrock

Communications, and a founding partner of Inertia

Labs. 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, Seminars About

Long Term Thinking, Long Server 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's combat

robots have won over six world championship titles appearing in the TV

show BattleBots.

Alexander has also built 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.

Some reviews, articles, appearances etc...

Multiple product reviews in Kevin Kelly's Cool

ToolsRegular contribitor to the Long

Now web logAppeared on History

Channel pilot episode The ArchiTechs November 02006Winner on the Discovery

Channel show Power Tool

Drag Races (Feb-Apr 02005)Winner of the 02004

Popular Science design contest (July 02004 issue)Several reviews in The Whole Earth Magazine 02003 Winter EditionListed 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 StructuresReview

in the July 02001 Wired Magazine of the AFS Trinity FlywheelReview

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.Appeared on over 20 episodes of BattleBots

Some speaking engagements:

Seeds of Change Y Conference March 27-29th 02008IDSA- Digging Deeper, San Francisco September 12th 02007Stanford

Graduate Product Design Lecture, February 02007UC Berkeley, Archiving

the Avant-Garde, January 02007Royal

Observatory at Greenwich, Speed of Time Conference, (keynote) January

02007American

Institute of Architechts Future Perfect Conference (keynote) 02006Received the Erdman

Campbell Award, Altanta 02006Digits

Fugit! Preserving Knowledge into the Future (keynote), Boston, Nov

3rd 02005Plan

B Democracy Conference in Helsinki, Finland, January 26th 02005Stanford

Lecture Series in Design October 28th 02004Time

In Design Conference in Eindhoven Holland, October 16-17, 02003Time Symposium (NAWCC) in St. Louis MO, October 22-25, 02003Long Term Preservation Conference, in Florence Italy, December 14th 02002.Xerox

PARC forum, in Palo Alto CA, December 6th, 02001TED11 conference in

Monterey CA, February 22, 02001Open Minds Masterclass in Glasgow Scotland, January 30, 02001Doors

of Perception Conference in Amsterdam, November 11, 02000Viper Conference in

Basel Switzerland, October 28, 0200010,000

Year Library Conference, June 30, 02000University

of San Francisco, October 7, 01999 May 3, 02000SETI Institute,

September 25, 01999Long Island

University, Turning 2000 conference, October 15th, 01999Stanford

Graduate Product Design Lecture, March, 01998