Eugen Pavel

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Dr Eugen Pavel is a Romanian scientist and the inventor of the Hyper CD-ROM, optical storage media with an initial capacity of 10 TB (and a theoretical capacity of 1 PB)[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 lead 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.[4]

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)[5]

Dr Pavel's Hyper CD-ROM technology is patented in 21 countries: the USA, Canada, Japan, Israel and 17 European states.[6]

[edit] External links

• Hyper CD-ROM
• cdfreaks.com's translation of a Romanian article on the Hyper CD-ROM
• "The future of discs: 10TB CDs" (News article, 7 December 2006)
• The Center of Excellence for Advanced Technologies "Euro-Asia"
• "Hyper CD-ROM Packs Terabytes" (PC World article, 12 October 2000)