Stephen B. Streater

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Stephen Bernard Streater, a British computer scientist and technology entrepreneur. He holds a degree in mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1987, but his Ph.D. in artificial intelligence and pattern recognition at King's College London was interrupted by the chance to start Eidos in 1990 -  which later became famous for games like Tomb Raider and others - developing the Full Motion video (FMV) compression techniques on RISC OS platforms. He then sold Eidos to provide the start-up capital for Forbidden Technologies, which successfully floated in 2000, best known for their internet video platform and video editing software Forscene. Stephen B. Streater's interests in Go also manifests in Forbidden Technologies sponsoring the Epsom Go Tournament.

=Computer Chess= Already in 1989, Stephen B. Streater began to write his chess program E6P for the ARM architecture of the Acorn Archimedes, to participate at the 1st Computer Olympiad 1989 in London. Due to its author's expertise in optimization, targeting that RISC platform, E6P was quite fast for that time, though positionally a bit half-cocked, causing some stir at the Olympiad with possible impact on the career of some Dutch programmers. As reported by its author a few years later during the MChess killer book discussion in rgcc, his program, at that time dubbed C_897d, was ported to a StrongARM processor, reaching 750,000 nodes per second.

=External Links=
 * Stephen B. Streater from Wikipedia
 * User:Stephen B Streater - Wikipedia
 * Leadership | Forbidden: Stephen Streater
 * Stephen Streater | LinkedIn
 * Stephen Streater of Forbidden Technologies by Wendy M. Grossman, The Inquirer, June 17, 2010

=Forum Posts=
 * Re: The MCHESS5 computer killer book... by Stephen B. Streater, rgcc, October 16, 1996 » MChess, Nodes per Second
 * Re: M-Chess Pro 6.0 program description by Stephen B. Streater, rgcc, October 19, 1996 » MChess
 * Re: M-Chess Pro 6.0 program description by Stephen B. Streater, rgcc, October 19, 1996 » Nodes per Second, StrongARM


 * StrongARM speed of Streater program (was Re: M-Chess Pro 6.0 program description) by Stephen B. Streater, rgcc, October 20, 1996
 * StrongARM speed of Streater program (was Re: M-Chess Pro 6.0 program description) by Stephen B. Streater, rgcc, October 20, 1996 » E6P, 1st Computer Olympiad 1989
 * StrongARM speed of Streater program (was Re: M-Chess Pro 6.0 program description) by Stephen B. Streater, rgcc, October 21, 1996
 * StrongARM speed of Streater program (was Re: M-Chess Pro 6.0 program description) by Stephen B. Streater, rgcc, October 21, 1996

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