Steve Perlman

Steve Perlman
Alma mater	Columbia University
Occupation	Electronic engineer and software inventor and entrepreneur
Known for	QuickTime, WebTV, pCell, OnLive, Mova

Stephen G. "Steve" Perlman is an entrepreneur and inventor of Internet, entertainment, multimedia, consumer electronics and communications technologies and services. He is best known for the development of QuickTime, WebTV, OnLive, pCell and Mova Contour facial capture technologies. In addition founding startup companies, Perlman was a Microsoft division president and a principal scientist at Apple Computer.

While a prolific entrepreneur, his management style has been called into question.

Perlman built his first computer from a kit during high school in 1976. He designed and built several computers, graphics video systems, modems, displays, audio systems, interface devices and video games, as well as software. He graduated from Columbia University in 1983.

In 1983 and 1984, Perlman designed a parallel-processing graphics system at Atari. At Coleco, Perlman developed a massively-parallel 3D animation chip and a software-based high-speed modem. In 1985 Perlman joined Apple Computer on the development team of some Macintosh multimedia technology including Road pizza, the video codec used by the first version of QuickTime.

In 1990 Perlman left Apple to join General Magic, where he designed its second-generation technology.

In 1994 Perlman co-founded Catapult Entertainment and was its chief technical officer. Catapult developed XBAND modems for the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game consoles that enabled online features for multiplayer video games.

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