Eugen Pavel
Dr. Eugen Pavel is a Romanian scientist and the inventor of the Hyper CD-ROM, a 3D optical data storage medium with an initial capacity of 1PB and with a theoretical capacity of 100 EB[1] on a single disc. It is considered by some to be the next revolution in computer storage.
Dr. Pavel graduated with a physics degree from the University of Bucharest in 1976.[2] He was awarded the Romanian Academy Prize in 1991 and obtained his doctorate in Physics from the Romanian Institute of Atomic Physics in 1992.[3]
He won the "Prix International de l’Organisation Mondiale de la Presse Periodique" and a gold medal at the November 1999 EUREKA Contest in Brussels for inventions that led to the creation of the Hyper CD-ROM. Dr. Pavel has published more than 40 books and articles, and he is the holder of 62 patents and patent applications.[2] 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." (English translation of quote originally published in Romanian)[4] Dr. Pavel's Hyper CD-ROM technology is patented in 21 countries: the USA, Canada, Japan, Israel and 17 European states.[2] USA company Constellation 3D announced on June 7, 2000 a similar optical storage media under the name Fluorescent Multilayer Disc.[5]
References
- ^ The Register, 19 January 2012 Holographic storage's corpse twitches
- ^ a b c Hyper CD-ROM: Three Dimensional Optical Memory with Fluorescent Photosensitive Glass
- ^ The Center of Excellence for Advanced Technologies "Euro-Asia" The Gutenberg era sets - the Pavel era begins.
- ^ cdfreaks.com's translation of a Romanian article on the Hyper CD-ROM
- ^ PC World, 12 October 2000 Hyper CD-ROM Packs Terabytes