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Maker Faire Bay Area 2008
The Clock of the Long Now and The Rosetta Project
The Long Now Foundation works to foster long-term thinking. We are building an all mechanical, monument-scale clock to last 10,000 years. We have also developed a laser-etched disk containing 30,000 pages of linguistic data and text in over 1,000 languages in order to preserve linguistic diversity for the distant future.
Web site: http://longnow.org
Topic(s): Engineering
Tags: future long-term sustainability time clock language
About the Maker(s)
Alexander Rose
ired 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.
http://www.longnow.org
Chris Rand
Chris began working with us in mid 01997 and has been an invaluable asset to the Clock project. Chris has been a machinest/builder for many Americas Cup racing syndicates, Survival Research Labs, Skellington Studios and Industrial Light and Magic.
http://www.longnow.org
The Long Now Foundation
The Long Now Foundation began in 01996 to foster long-term thinking and responsibility through a series of ambitious projects.
http://www.longnow.org
Greg Staples
Greg Staples is a Design Engineer with a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Santa Clara University. He began working with Long Now in 02006 and is one of the designers of the Chime Generator and the Solar Trigger. With 10 years of experience as a Product Design Engineer, he has worked with everything from hand-held surveying equipment to low pressure aluminum casting machines. He enjoys tinkering with and resurrecting old mechanical junk.
http://www.longnow.org
Paolo Salvagione
Paolo is a world renowned bicycle designer and builder who joined our team in 02000. He is the principle engineer on almost all the Clock prototypes completed since then.
http://www.longnow.org
Welcher Laura
Laura Welcher is a linguist with research interests in endangered language documentation, description and revitalization, as well as the growing subdiscipline of computer-assisted linguistics. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, where she learned first hand the importance of creating digital language resources that last in her field research on Potawatomi (a critically endangered North American language) and in her work as an archivist with the Survey for California and Other Indian Languages. She worked with the E-MELD project in developing FIELD, an ontology-based lexical database, and building Potawatomi resources for the School of Best Practice. Since then she has become involved with various projects in linguistics that are working towards developing standards for the creation and archiving of digital language resources and interoperable tools to support linguistic research, including the Open Language Archives Community, LINGUIST List, and the GOLD Markup Ontology.
http://www.rosettaproject.org
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