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Robin Rowe is a creative technologist and C++ software designer. Founder of the Linux Movies Group, a two-year-old industry association that meets monthly in Hollywood and the San Francisco bay area. Founded the Apple Shake Users Group and the Apple Motion Users Group. Project leader for deep paint CinePaint, the most widely used open source software tool in feature film production. Project manager for GTK+OSX, an open source project to port GTK+ to Mac OS X Aqua. Writes on graphics topics for many magazines including Linux Journal, Millimeter, and Computer Graphics World, SMPTE Journal, Dr. Dobb's Journal, and C/C++ Users Journal. See publications for more. Speaks at conferences such as the Desktop Linux Summit,  SMPTE, NAB, AUVSI, Embedded Systems, Software Development, Windows Solutions, Object Expo, and C++ World.

• 1999 to present: Founding partner in MovieEditor, a technology company dedicated to creating breakthroughs in motion picture  software.
• 1996 to 1999: Chief technologist and enterprise manager for video R&D at SAIC, a Fortune 500 defense company. Founded successful R&D division. Sponsors included DARPA, DISA, ONR (U.S. Navy), and television broadcast equipment maker Leitch. The news -journalist-operated video editing system he created for Leitch was sold to Time Warner and used at Manhattan 24-hours news station New York One. He created a real time television news monitoring system for the Pentagon, and personally field tested his software systems on the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln and on the navy flagship USS Coronado.
• 1995 to 1996: Research scientist and lecturer at the computer science department of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. Work to implement realistic natural weather in virtual reality (on SGI IRIX) was funded by the U.S. Army. The Office of Naval Research funded his design of a computer-controlled laserdisc video night vision simulator (on Sun Solaris). Taught C.S. 3700 Advanced C++.
• 1994 to 1995: Instructor at the University of Washington Extension night school. Taught Intermediate C++.
• 1987 to 1995: Consulting in software development and television operations with offices in Chicago, Illinois, and Redmond, Washington. Elected to the board of the Washington Software Association (1995). Founded the Northwest C++ Users Group (1993). At NBC station WMAQ-TV in Chicago, Illinois, helped build one of the most robotic television studios in the world (1990).
• 1987: Produced and directed a music video broadcast on Chicago PBS station WTTW-TV. Dance videographer for Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival.
• 1985 to 1987: Technical director for broadcast news at mid-market NBC station WICD-TV, Champaign, Illinois.

Studied computer science at Northwestern University, mathematics and dance at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Grew up on an organic farm in central Illinois. Parents were pioneers in the natural foods movement.