Stepan Pachikov

Stepan Alexandrovich Pachikov (Russian: Степан Александрович Пачиков; born February 1, 1950) is the co-founder of ParaGraph Intl., Parascript, Evernote Corp. among other software companies which contributed heavily to the development of Handwriting recognition and VRML technologies.

In 1989–1997, he worked in Moscow at ParaGraph International, a Soviet-American joint venture[1] which dealt with handwriting recognition software for the Apple Newton.

In 1992 he opened the US branch of ParaGraph in Silicon Valley, where he created and distributed software called Calligrapher for handwritten input on tablets and touchscreens.

From 1997 to 1998, he served as vice president and established a Pen & Internet division of Silicon Graphics.

[5] Since 1986, he has been President of the Moscow Computer Children Club, supported at the time by world chess champion Garry Kasparov, where children are taught computer programming, web design, etc.