Stephen G. "Steve" Perlman is an entrepreneur and inventor of Internet, entertainment, multimedia, consumer electronics and communications technologies and services.
In addition to founding startup companies, Perlman was a Microsoft division president and a principal scientist at Apple Computer.
In 1985 Perlman joined Apple Computer on the development team of some Macintosh multimedia technology including Road pizza, the video codec used by the first version of QuickTime.
[13] In 2006 Perlman unveiled Mova's Contour, a digital multi-camera system that captures and tracks detailed surface data and textures for post-production manipulation.
It was used for 3D volumetric shape capture of Brad Pitt's face in the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,[14] which received the 2008 Academy Award for Achievement in Visual Effects[15] for the photorealism achieved in computer-generated reverse-aging of Brad Pitt's face.
[4][20][21] In 2011, Perlman announced that he and colleagues in a company called Artemis Networks invented an experimental wireless communications system.