Eugen Pavel

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Eugen Pavel is a Romanian scientist and the claimed inventor of the Hyper CD-ROM .

Pavel graduated with a physics degree from the University of Bucharest in 1976. He was awarded the Romanian Academy Prize in 1991 and obtained his doctorate in Physics from the Romanian Institute of Atomic Physics in 1992. [1]

Hyper CD-ROM

The Hyper CD-ROM is a proposed 3D optical data storage medium which uses Fluorescent Multilayer Disc [2] technology with a reported capacity of 1PB and a theoretical capacity of 100 EB [3] on a single disc.

In an interview about his work on the Hyper CD-ROM, Dr. Pavel stated that "the research for this project is 100% personal, [and] so is the support for experiments." [4]

References

  1. ↑ The Center of Excellence for Advanced Technologies "Euro-Asia" The Gutenberg era sets - the Pavel era begins.
  2. ↑ PC World, 12 October 2000 Archived 5 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine Hyper CD-ROM Packs Terabytes
  3. ↑ The Register, 19 January 2012 Holographic storage's corpse twitches
  4. ↑ "cdfreaks.com's translation of a Romanian article on the Hyper CD-ROM". Archived from the original on 2007-05-23. Retrieved 2006-12-08.
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