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Robert Stein

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Biography

A prominent personality in the international digital community and pioneer of content-based publishing, Bob Stein (voyager@applelink.apple.com) has degrees from Columbia and Harvard universities.

He is considered a visionary, someone who is not afraid to do things that the majority consider absurd, and thus an innovator in the world of communication and multimedia.

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He was a consultant to Atari and to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, before co-founding the Voyager Company in 1984. Since then, Voyager's catalogue of interactive CD-ROM and Laserdisc titles has established it as one of the leading multimedia publishers.

Voyager, which takes its name from the spacecraft, has produced laserdiscs of classic and contemporary films, and in 1987 produced the first interactive computer discs for Hypercard. In 1988 it produced Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, considered the very first commercial CD-Rom.

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