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., 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.
