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CESD (C. E. Steuart Dewar) was an early pioneer in the development of multi-terminal publishing systems and was recognized in a News Inc. Magazine article as one of the four founding fathers of the electronic publishing systems industry. CESD founded Dewar Information Systems Corporation in 1975 to further develop editorial and classified systems for newspapers.

In 1988, Dewar Information Systems was ranked #115 on the Inc-500 list of the fastest growing companies in the U.S. In subsequent years, CESD received the Blue Chip Enterprise Award, the Illinois High Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Award and was elected to the Entrepreneur Hall of Fame. Although CESD developed proprietary systems during the early 1980's, he was one of the first to switch to using standard platforms, software and operating systems. His DewarView product developed in the early 1990's was very popular in many US and European newspapers and was also adopted by USA Today to edit and prepare material for their web site when it was first launched. In 1994, DewarView received the Seybold Award for Excellence in recognition of its pioneering architecture. Dewar's management philosophy was covered in an Inc. Magazine article entitled: Death, Taxes, and. . . Meetings which discussed his enthusiastic endorsement of group-decision making.

In 1995, CESD sold Dewar Information Systems to the Norwegian software company Sysdeco (which subsequently passed it to its spun-off subsidiary, Atex Media Solutions) and retired. He also now admits that he had missed the silent 'ally' in the word 'retired', namely reallytired, as he now spends all his time writing shareware software under the name of Pimlico Software, Inc., where he developed DateBk5 - a leading application for the Palm OS. A light version of DateBk5's predecessor, DateBk3 was licensed to Handspring (now part of PalmOne) as their Datebook+/Calendar application and appears on millions of Handspring Visors and Treo handhelds. In 2004, DateBk5 won the 2004 PalmSource Award for best Enterprise/Productivity application for the Palm OS.

And when is not writing software he works with his wife Jane on their wildlife foundation The Dewar Wildlife Trust, Inc. located on 324 acres in the North Georgia Mountains near Blue Ridge, Georgia. The 324 acre property is the home of Gorilla Haven - a state of the art holding facility for Western Lowland Gorillas incorporating what will be some of the largest controlled habitats in the world for gorillas. In addition to managing the project, CESD designs and builds all the custom electronic control systems for the facility and handles all the surveying and site engineering tasks. Gorilla Haven welcomed its first resident, Joe (Kabako), in March of 2003.

Interior of the Gorilla Haven habitat #1

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