Lawrence Rowe
Updated: 12/30/2019 by Computer Hope
Name: Lawrence (Larry) A. Rowe
Born: April 11, 1948
Computer-related contributions
- Computer scientist, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley from 1976 to 2003.
- Founding director of the BMRC (Berkeley Multimedia Research Center), 1995. A major BMRC accomplishment was creating the Berkeley Webcasting System that produced over 30 hours a week of Berkeley course lectures until its closure in 2009.
- Helped produce the Berkeley MPEG-1 Tools (1991-1995), the Berkeley MIG (Multimedia, Interfaces, and Graphics) Seminar Webcast (1995-2002), and Open Mash Streaming Media Toolkit (1999-2003).