Robert Stein (computer pioneer)

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Robert Stein (born April 20, 1946) is an American businessman. He is a co-founder of

).

Born and raised in New York City, Stein attended Columbia University, majoring in psychology. Later, he earned a master's degree in education from Harvard University.

Stein then worked with Alan Kay at the Atari Research Group on various electronic publishing projects.

After Voyager, Stein founded Night Kitchen to develop authoring tools for experimental electronic publishing, primarily TK3^{[permanent dead link]}.

Stein is the director of the

's higher-ed digital infrastructure initiative). The other is exploring and hopefully influencing the evolution of new forms of intellectual expression and discourse." This new scholarly direction is being explored under the umbrella of MediaCommons.

In 2019 Stein donated his archival papers and hard drives to Stanford University.^[1]

External links

• Bob Stein on the unrecorded history of online publishing, Triple Canopy, July 2010
• Robert Stein by John Brockman
• Bob Stein interviewed on This Spartan Life, August 2005
• "The Teachings of Bob Stein", Wired Magazine, July 1996
• The Institute for the Future of the Book
• if:book, the Institute for the Future of the Book weblog
• "Becoming Book-Like: Bob Stein and the Future of the Book" (Interview)
• MediaCommons

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