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.
Some reviews, articles, appearances etc...
- Multiple product reviews in Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools
- Regular contribitor to the Long Now web log
- Appeared on History Channel pilot episode The ArchiTechs November 02006
- Winner on the Discovery Channel show Power Tool Drag Races (Feb-Apr 02005)
- Winner of the 02004 Popular Science design contest (July 02004 issue)
- Several reviews in The Whole Earth Magazine 02003 Winter Edition
- Listed in Richard Saul Wurman's "Who's Really Who, The most creative individuals in the USA"
- Review in the March 02002 Wired Magazine of Icosa Structures
- Review in the July 02001 Wired Magazine of the AFS Trinity Flywheel
- Review in the April 02001 Wired Magazine of a Honda Generator.
- Review in February 02001 Wired Magazine of Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio.
- Several reviews in The Whole Earth Magazine 02001 Tool Edition.
- Appeared on over 20 episodes of BattleBots
Some speaking engagements:
- Seeds of Change Y Conference March 27-29th 02008
- IDSA- Digging Deeper, San Francisco September 12th 02007
- Stanford Graduate Product Design Lecture, February 02007
- UC Berkeley, Archiving the Avant-Garde, January 02007
- Royal Observatory at Greenwich, Speed of Time Conference, (keynote) January 02007
- American Institute of Architechts Future Perfect Conference (keynote) 02006
- Received the Erdman Campbell Award, Altanta 02006
- Digits Fugit! Preserving Knowledge into the Future (keynote), Boston, Nov 3rd 02005
- Plan B Democracy Conference in Helsinki, Finland, January 26th 02005
- Stanford Lecture Series in Design October 28th 02004
- Time In Design Conference in Eindhoven Holland, October 16-17, 02003
- Time Symposium (NAWCC) in St. Louis MO, October 22-25, 02003
- Long Term Preservation Conference, in Florence Italy, December 14th 02002.
- Xerox PARC forum, in Palo Alto CA, December 6th, 02001
- TED11 conference in Monterey CA, February 22, 02001
- Open Minds Masterclass in Glasgow Scotland, January 30, 02001
- Doors of Perception Conference in Amsterdam, November 11, 02000
- Viper Conference in Basel Switzerland, October 28, 02000
- 10,000 Year Library Conference, June 30, 02000
- University of San Francisco, October 7, 01999 & May 3, 02000
- SETI Institute, September 25, 01999
- Long Island University, Turning 2000 conference, October 15th, 01999
- Stanford Graduate Product Design Lecture, March, 01998
