Stuart Gold qualified as an Architect in 1980 and practiced for five years before immersing himself in the field of Computer Aided Design. After many years of developing and using CAD systems (and especially after being reduced to tears waiting for Autocad to render an architectural drawing on an IBM XT) he left architecture and CAD to launch Info-Quest Ltd.
Stuart set up Info-Quest primarily as an information services company and initially contracted with British Telecom as an information provider for the Prestel Videotex system. He spent five years developing various programs to do wonderful things with Prestel which was a flawed and under-funded service and ultimately somewhat of an embarrassment to BT.
After seeing the writing on the wall he moved into the area of Database development and joined The Graphics Technology Group to work on applications with emphasis on database publishing. In 1989 he joined up with Julian Bauer to form Bauer Gold Associates Ltd where he continued developing database applications. In 1996 he turned to the Internet and began specialising in the provision of data over the Web using back-end database technology.
Also in 1996 he discovered Virtual Worlds technology and since then he hasn’t been able to put a coherent sentence together (according to his immediate family and friends). Later in 1996 he met Bruce Damer and worked with him on various projects under the umbrella of the Contact Consortium including an international architecture competition for a virtual university.
In 1999 Stuart joined Digitalspace Corp. of which he is now a principal together with Bruce Damer. He is currently working on the development of collaborative virtual environments for education and commerce using standard web and database technologies together with immersive avatar environments.
Stuart moved from the UK to the US in 2001 and is now living with his family in Phoenix, Arizona.
