Eugen Pavel is a Romanian scientist and the claimed inventor of the Hyper CD-ROM.
[2] 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.
Despite its bold claims the technology has not been shown as a working prototype in the over twenty years since its announcement.
The Hyper CD-ROM technology is patented in 21 countries: the USA, Canada, Japan, Israel and 17 European states.
[1] 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.