Creative technologist, product designer and entrepreneur who has led pioneering work in AI, VR, AR, television and motion picture technology. Has guided innovation at the United Nations, WHO, Lenovo, AT&T, GoPro, DreamWorks Animation and NBC-TV. DARPA and navy research scientist. Hollywood producer, author, university professor, investor and politician. Founded first startup at age 16. Enjoys programming in C++. Architect of TrapC, a fork of the C programming language this is memory safe and language secure. The TrapC compiler with AI code safety will make software memory safe and unhackable by eliminating Undefined Behavior and unchecked error conditions.Founding director of the AI research lab at the multi-billion-dollar engineering firm SAIC. Funded by DARPA, the SAIC AI lab did R&D in speech recognition development to create a talking computer like the in the TV series Star Trek. Part of DARPA's pioneering research that led eventually to Siri and Alexa. While at SAIC, created a military intelligence DVR with real-time AI Natural Language Processing (NLP) for national defense.Before SAIC, professor Rowe taught Advanced C++ at the Naval Postgraduate School, while at the same time was a navy research scientist in the NPSNET Research Group. NPSNET built VR war gaming software that looked like Call of Duty, before Call of Duty, was the first realistic VR war game. NPSNET pioneered realistic, networked, first-person shooter gaming, that later became a multi-billion-dollar industry. The director of NPSNET director became the founding director of the USC Computer Science Games Program. Before NPS, instructor at the University of Washington, taught Intermediate C++.Recruited by the CTO of DreamWorks Animation, moved to Hollywood and spent many years developing real-time animation software and visual effects software used in making major motion pictures and a hit cartoon series. Lenovo Augmented Reality (AR) product design strategist. World Health Organization Augmented Reality Group Manager, medical metaverse and 3D hospital AR/VR war gaming.As a journalist, was managing editor of the news daily Hollywood Today, film critic for the newspaper British Weekly, and contributing editor to Popular Science, Popular Photography, Videography, Writers Digest and other magazines.In politics, ran for the office of U.S. Senator of Maryland in 2024, and before that, for Beverly Hills City Council (mayor) in California.