Professor Rowe is a futurist, technology visionary, research scientist, author, tech investor, and influencer. Guided technology innovation at the UN World Health Organization, Lenovo, AT&T, GoPro, DreamWorks Animation, NBC-TV, DARPA, the U.S. navy and start-ups.

Current work includes developing the C2 programming language, a memory-safe version of C. Project manager for CinePaint, the open source alternative to Adobe Photoshop used by Hollywood in making major motion pictures.