Steve Perlman is an entrepreneur and inventor devoted to pioneering entertainment, multimedia, communications and consumer electronics technologies and services. He has more than 30 years of technology development experience, over 15 years of start-up experience and a track record of bringing media-rich products and services quickly to market.
Steve is founder and CEO of the Rearden Companies, a family of companies dedicated to the synergistic development of art and technology. woa.tv :: The Women of Action Network is a subsidiary of Rearden.
Steve’s technology work is built into all Macs and most PCs and has been deployed by DirecTV, Dish, Comcast, Charter and Adelphia Cable TV and Satellite TV networks; and retailed as consumer products from Sony, Philips, RCA, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, Samsung, Fujitsu and Motorola. Products he has created include Mova Contour Reality Capture™, WebTV, the Moxi Media Center and the underpinnings of Macintosh multimedia technology, including QuickTime.
Steve’s production companies’ work includes video game motion capture for Electronic Arts’ From Russia with Love (2005), The Godfather (2006) and Vivendi Universal’s upcoming Eragon (2006); HD video/audio editorial work for Santana, Electronic Arts and independent film; and art/production design for Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis for major motion pictures War of the Worlds (2005), Monster House (2006) and Beowulf (2007).
Steve holds over 250 US patents in an array of communications, video, graphics, facial capture, video gaming, software lens, and wireless power technologies.
Steve’s detailed bio can be found at rearden.com.
Recent Steve Perlman News:
Mova Contour™ Reality Capture Unveiled
New York Times: Camera System Creates Sophisticated 3D Effects
Wall Street Journal: Digital Replicas May Change Face of Films
Mercury News: Capturing Faces
PC Magazine profile of Steve Perlman
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Teena Apeles is the author of Women Warriors: Adventures from History’s Greatest Female Fighters (Seal Press, 2004). She has contributed to BUST, LA Weekly, GiantRobot, Audrey, Pasadena Weekly and SOMA. She has edited SOMA, The Freshjive Propagandist, PEN Center USA, KCET–TV and the City of Lakewood.
Roberta Brown is a fight director and swordmaster working on projects about powerful women, including Charlie’s Angels, Boudica and The Queen of Swords. She contributed to The Woman Fencer (Wish Publishing, 2001) and is Director of Theatrical Combat at the Beverly Hills Fencers’ Club.
Dr. Jeannine Davis–Kimball received her PhD in art history and archaeology from the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Warrior Women: An Archaeologist’s Search for History’s Hidden Heroines (Warner Books, 2002).
Bethany Gumper is an associate editor at Shape magazine. Her essay “Souvenirs from Ecuador” was published in The Risks of Sunbathing Topless (Seal Press, 2005).
Susan Leslie is a Los Angeles–based actor and writer. She was a contributor to Virgin Territory (Three Rivers Press, 2004) and is the author of the play This Is Your Wake–Up Call!
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Zel McCarthy–Smith lives in Los Angeles where he contributes music and culture pieces to various print publications and edits the music website GrooveTickets.com.
Nora Pierce’s first novel, The Insufficiency of Maps, is forthcoming from Atria in 2007. She is a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University.
Andrea Richards is the author of Girl Director: A How–To Guide for the First–Time, Flat–Broke Film and Video Maker (Ten Speed Press, 2005). She has written for publications such as Attaché, Bitch, BUST, LA Weekly, Los Angeles magazine, and for the book Bare Your Soul: The Thinking Girl’s Guide to Enlightenment (Seal Press, 2002).
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Kate Soto is a Los Angeles–based writer, most recently published in Poetic Diversity and the forthcoming anthology Literary Angles. She holds an MFA from Antioch University.
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Lyn Webster Wilde is author of On the Trail of the Women Warriors (Thomas Dunne Books, 2000) and Becoming the Enchanter (J.P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2002). She lives in Herefordshire, England, and is an explorer of British mystery traditions.
Amy Zoll holds an MA in Roman archaeology from Durham University, UK, and is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Gladiatrix: The True Story of History’s Unknown Woman Warrior (Berkley Boulevard, 2002).
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