People of Long Now


Alexander Rose

Executive Director and Clock Project Manager

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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.

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Alexander Rose

Executive Director and Clock Project Manager

Laura Welcher

Director of Development and The Rosetta Project

Kurt Bollacker

Digital Research Director

Danielle Engelman

Community Development Director

Chris Rand

Machinist and Fabricator

Paolo Salvagione

Design Engineer

Greg Staples

Clock Engineer

Luke Khanlian

Clock Engineer

Jascha Little

Clock Engineer

Austin Brown

Assistant Manager, Long Now Museum & Store

Contessa Trujillo

Administrative Assistant

Robin Ward

Long Now Museum & Store, Archives

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