Stephen Bernard Streater (born 1965) is a British technology

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Career

Streater was born in Boston Lying-In Hospital,

Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...

, United States. He achieved a degree in mathematics from

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...

and then began a PhD on artificial

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in the physics department at

King's College London King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...

. In 1990, he co-founded

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, a company specialising in

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and

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s, particularly for computers running the

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operating system. He later sold and left Eidos, which had moved into the

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market, and founded Blackbird in 2000, where he was the company's R&D Director. On 21 July 2011, Streater was honoured by the

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with a Doctor of Science degree in recognition of "outstanding contribution to the development of computer technologies."

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

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and

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, Go, new technology, and making videos. Streater's father,

Ray Streater Raymond Frederick "Ray" Streater (born 1936) is a British physicist, and professor emeritus of Applied Mathematics at King's College London. He is best known for co-authoring a text on quantum field theory, the 1964 ''PCT, Spin and Statistic ...

, is a professor of mathematics at

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