Stephen B. Streater

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Stephen Bernard Streater (born 1965) is a British technology entrepreneur.

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Career

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] [4] He later sold and left Eidos, which had moved into the computer games market, and founded Blackbird in 2000, [1] [5] where he was the company's R&D Director. [6] [7]

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."[ citation needed ]

Personal life

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.

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