Steven Pederson

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Steven Pederson
Steven Pederson, 1981
Born	1959
Occupation	Software publisher

Steven W. Pederson is an American software programmer and entrepreneur, best known for being one of the founders of software publisher Edu-Ware Services.

While attending UCLA in the late 1970's, he met Sherwin Steffin, who was faculty advisor to the campus radio station where Pederson hosted a program. When Steffin was laid off from the university in 1979, the two decided to start a software company named Edu-Ware Services. Though an economics major, Pederson had taken some computer programming courses. Steffin introduced him to the Apple II computer, and while he finished his degree, he wrote several programs for the new company, including the computer games Space and Terrorist, as well as the educational program Compu-Spell, using a high-resolution font of his own design.

Two years later, in 1981, Pederson became President of Edu-Ware. The company was sold to Management Sciences America in 1983. In 1984, Pederson left Edu-Ware to start a new venture.

[edit] References

Tommervik, Allan (May 1981). "Exec Edu-Ware". Softalk: 4, 6, 19.
"MSA Acquires Edu-Ware" (October 1983). Softalk for the IBM Personal Computer: 131.