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title: "Gene I. Rochlin"
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entity_kind: "person"
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canonical_name: "Gene I. Rochlin"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-09-14T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["High Reliability Theory","Todd R. La Porte","Pacific Gas and Electric grid management","Normal Accident Theory"]
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Co-founder, with [[entity-todd-la-porte|Todd La Porte]] and Karlene Roberts, of the Berkeley High Reliability Organizations (HRO) research program. His introduction to the 1996 special issue of the *Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management* names the three organizations chosen for the project's founding 1984 fieldwork.

Matters to this vault because that founding case list directly links [[entity-high-reliability-theory|High Reliability Theory]]'s origin to the vault's own AI-infrastructure security research: one of the three founding cases was Pacific Gas & Electric's grid-management operations, the same structural domain [[claim-bit2watt-gpu-scheduling-destabilizes-power-grid|Bit2Watt's]] finding addresses.

## References

- [[claim-berkeley-hro-founding-fieldwork-included-pge-grid-management]]