Alyssa Rosenzweig
Notable workPanfrost

Alyssa Rosenzweig is a software developer[1] and software freedom activist[2] known for her work on free software graphics drivers.[3][4]

Education

Rosenzweig attended Dougherty Valley High School, with enrichment classes at Harvard Summer School and the Center of Talented Youth.[5]

As of 2021, she studies mathematics at Innis College at the University of Toronto as a Lester B. Pearson International Scholar.[6][7][5]

Career

As a software engineer at Collabora, she led the Panfrost project,[8] developing free software OpenGL drivers for the Mali GPU to support accelerated graphics in upstream Mesa,[9] shipping out-of-the-box on devices like the Pinebook Pro.[10] She left Collabora on 10 April 2023.[11] Since May of 2023, she has worked with Valve Corporation as a contractor.[12]

In September 2020, she wrote a Linux client for the COVID-19 contact tracing used in Canada.[3]

As an Asahi Linux developer, she works on reverse-engineering the Apple GPU for the purpose of porting Linux to the Apple M1 processor[13][14][15] to enable the development of a free software Gallium3D-based OpenGL driver[16] targeting the "AGX" architecture found in the M1 GPU.[17] In July 2021, Rosenzweig demonstrated Debian running bare metal on the Apple M1 with a mainline kernel.[18]

Awards

She is the recipient of the 2020 Award for Outstanding New Free Software Contributor[19][20] and a Google Open Source Peer Bonus.[21]

References

  1. ↑ Vaughan-Nichols, Steven J. (21 Jan 2021). "Corellium ports Linux to Apple M1 Mac mini". ZDnet. Archived from the original on 22 January 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  2. ↑ Morgenstein, Dana (6 Mar 2020). "Celebrating women in free software for International Women's Day". Free Software Foundation. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  3. 1 2 Grüner, Sebastian (9 Sep 2020). "Bluetooth-Kontaktverfolgung geht auch auf Laptops". Golem.de. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  4. ↑ Rosenzweig, Alyssa. "Her personal website". Archived from the original on 2021-08-29.
  5. 1 2 Rosenzwig, Alyssa. "Resume" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-09-25.
  6. ↑ "Meet the 2019 Pearson Scholars". University of Toronto. 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  7. ↑ Ngan, Jadine (2020). "Alyssa Rosenzweig". Innis Alumni Family and Friends. Toronto: Innis College. p. 30. Archived from the original on 2021-06-06. Retrieved 2021-05-31.
  8. ↑ Agrawal, Gaurav (3 Oct 2019). "Meet Alyssa Rosenzweig and Panfrost". Getting to Know GNOME. GNOME. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 6 Jun 2021.
  9. ↑ Grüner, Sebastian (17 Sep 2020). "ARM unterstützt Entwicklung von freiem Panfrost-Treiber". Golem.de. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  10. ↑ Evangelho, Jason (15 Mar 2020). "The $199 Pinebook Pro Gets Even Better With New Manjaro KDE Version". Forbes. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  11. ↑ Rosenzweig, Alyssa. "Passing the reins on Panfrost". Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  12. ↑ Dawe, Liam (2023-06-27). "Valve pulls in another graphics driver developer for Linux gaming". GamingOnLinux. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  13. ↑ Tung, Liam (8 Jan 2021). "Linux on Apple's Arm silicon Macs? This crowdfunded project wants to give it a try". ZDnet. Archived from the original on 20 January 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  14. ↑ Proschofsky, Andreas (10 Jan 2021). "Asahi Linux soll das freie Betriebssystem auf Macs mit "Apple Silicon" bringen". Der Standard. STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  15. ↑ Grüner, Sebastian (20 Apr 2021). "Apples M1-GPU komplett auf Metal ausgerichtet". Golem.de. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  16. ↑ "Linux on Apple's M1 makes headway". Linux Format. No. LXF277. Jul 2021. p. 8.
  17. ↑ Grüner, Sebastian (3 May 2021). "Freier OpenGL-Treiber für Apples M1-GPU vorgestellt". Golem.de. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  18. ↑ July 2021, Francisco Pires 26 (26 July 2021). "Debian Linux Running Bare Metal on Apple's M1 SoC". Tom's Hardware. Archived from the original on 2021-08-02. Retrieved 2021-07-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  19. ↑ Corbet, Jonathan (21 Mar 2021). "2021 Free Software Awards announced". LWN.net. Eklektix, Inc. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  20. ↑ "Free Software Awards winners announced: CiviCRM, Bradley Kuhn, and Alyssa Rosenzweig". Free Software Foundation. 20 Mar 2021. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  21. ↑ "Announcing the 2020 first quarter Google Open Source Peer Bonus winners". Google Open Source Blog. Google. 17 Apr 2020. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
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