词条 | Stephen B. Streater |
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Stephen Bernard Streater (born 1965) is a British technology entrepreneur. Streater was born in Boston Lying-In Hospital, Massachusetts, United States. He achieved a degree in mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge and then began a PhD on artificial pattern recognition in the physics department at King's College London. In 1990, he co-founded Eidos, a company specialising in video compression and non-linear editing systems, particularly for computers running the RISC OS operating system.[1][2][3] He later sold and left Eidos, which had moved into the computer games market, and founded Forbidden Technologies plc,[1] whose main product is FORscene. He is currently the company's CEO.[4][5] Streater is married to Victoria Jane (née Fantl) and has three daughters (Sophie, Juliette and Emily). He has a sister (Catherine) and a brother (Alexander). His hobbies include playing classical chamber and orchestral music,[2] Go, new technology, and making videos. Streater's father, Ray Streater, is a professor of mathematics at King's College London. On 21 July 2011, Streater was honoured by the University of Bedfordshire with a Doctor of Science degree in recognition of "outstanding contribution to the development of computer technologies." References1. ^1 {{cite news | title= My First Million: The techie who turned £4 into £4 million | author= Jody Clarke | publisher=MoneyWeek | date= July 17, 2006 }} 2. ^1 {{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6170548.stm | title= Feet up - at 24 | author= Claire Heald | publisher=BBC News | date= November 22, 2006 | accessdate=January 21, 2010 }} 3. ^{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/abundance-of-riches-at-eidos-1567879.html | title= Abundance of riches at Eidos | author= | publisher=The Independent | date= January 13, 1995 | accessdate=January 21, 2010 }} 4. ^{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/jul/25/business.efinance1 | title= Forbidden's progress takes market cap to £188m | author= Andrew Clark | publisher=The Guardian | date= July 25, 2000 | accessdate=January 21, 2010 }} 5. ^{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/sharewatch/investment-column-southern-crosss-recovery-is-far-too-slow-1770350.html | title= Investment Column: Southern Cross's recovery is far too slow | author= Alistair Dawber | publisher=The Independent | date= August 11, 2009 | accessdate=January 21, 2010 }} External links
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