Steven M. Rubin


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How I Got Here

I was born in 1952, and grew up in northern New Jersey (yes, that's me, age 2). My mother still live there. My younger brother Paul lives in New York City, is married to Marti Cooney, and has a band called Cab City Combo. My youngest brother Richard lives in Alexandria, Virginia and is married to Alana Landey. For way more detail than you ever want to know, here are some family trees in which I appear:
Newman    Rubin    Lansky    Bronsky    Carrel

My college years were spent in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1970 to 1978). I went to Carnegie-Mellon University back when there was a hyphen between the words "Carnegie" and "Mellon". I got a BS in Math (1974), MS in Computer Science (1976), and PhD in Computer Science (1978).

After school, I worked for Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, doing graphics research (1978 to 1981).

I moved to the Bay Area of California in 1981. At first, I worked for Schlumberger/Fairchild, doing VLSI CAD research (this is where I first wrote Electric).

From 1988 to 1997, I worked at Apple Computer where I built 3D graphics systems.

In 1997, I was Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Electric Editor Incorporated.

From 1998 to 1999 I consulted for Interval Research.

From 1999 to 2002 I consulted for Sun Microsystems and in 2002 became a fulltime employee.

In 2010, Sun was acquired by Oracle which is where I work now.

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