Baruch "Barry" Rosenberg

Baruch (“Barry”) Rosenberg, 94, of Lincoln, MA , formerly a resident of 50 years of Lexington MA, and, for 30 of those years, also of Boca Raton, FL, died on August 3 at the Faulkner Hospital in Boston of a respiratory infection.

Barry was born December 31, 1930 in Brooklyn NY to Rose and Morris Rosenberg, immigrants from Russia and Austria respectively, who escaped peril and lived out the American dream, creating a successful small business and opening up a world of opportunity for their two sons and their descendants.

Barry was a counselor for several years at Camp Kinderwelt in Highland Mills, NY. He graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn in 1949 and was awarded a US Navy scholarship to attend Tulane University. At Tulane, he earned a BS in physics, was secretary of the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Barry was in the ROTC at Tulane, and after graduation in 1953, was a midshipman and supply officer until 1956, serving on the USS Willard Keith in the Korean occupation and on the USS Proton out of San Francisco. Barry retired from the US Naval Reserve in 1990 at the rank of Lieutenant Commander.

Following his active military service, Barry was a Gordon McKay Fellow at the Harvard University Computer Lab, earning a Masters in applied mathematics, and then going to work in the early computer industry as a mathematician-programmer, including at IBM. He then spent over a decade at Wolf Research & Development, playing a key role in developing the Air Force Space Defense System and implementing it at the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado Springs.

In 1967, Barry took a year off to earn a Masters from the MIT Sloan School of Management. After Wolf became a subsidiary of EG&G in 1967, he was Vice President of its computer technology division, with management responsibility for commercial software and consulting operations.

In 1970, Barry became an institutional research analyst specializing in the computer industry at GS Grumman Associates in Boston, where he was a Director and Vice President for Research. GS Grumman was later acquired by Cowen & Company, where Barry became the partner in charge of technology research and venture capital activities and was recognized for most of the 1980s as one of the top national computer industry institutional investment analysts. Barry retired from Cowen as a general partner in 1990.

While at Tulane, Barry met his lifelong friend, Dr. Barry Fanburg, who later introduced him to Diane (Jacobson), to whom he was an adoring husband from 1958 until her passing in 2015. Barry is survived by his children: Lee and his wife, Joan, Karen, and Rachel (Machera) and her husband Mark, and by his grandchildren Rebecca, Marcy, and Julie Rosenberg and Daniel and Casey Machera. Barry was also predeceased by his beloved older brother, Aaron.

Barry was , among many things, a kind, gentle man, an avid tennis player, a lifelong learner, a master of dad jokes, a traveler, a lover of animals and a believer in democracy. In lieu of flowers, donations in his memory to the American Civil Liberties Union (at https://tinyurl.com/yszuhepa)and Mass Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (at www.justgiving.com/page/barryrosenberg)are encouraged.