YONAT01 - Explorations in Technology
Channel: MCTheYearOf
Date: 2017-05-23

Moorpark College is pleased to announce its 50th Anniversary celebration and the next event of our annual program with “The Year of Now and Then: Explorations in Technology.”   This exciting event will feature discussions and demonstrations on innovations in video game graphics, technologies utilized in Athletics, Astronomy and robotic arms utilized by NASA on all the Mars Rovers, leading up to the Curiosity Rover. 
 
This entertaining and compelling program offers something for everyone as demonstrations on the evolution in technologies in basketball, video game graphics from “Pong” to “Call of Duty” and space age innovations are presented.  This FREE event, open to the community, will highlight the latest innovations in athletic coaching, digital graphics, multi-wavelength scanning of the heavens and the development of interplanetary exploration. We hope you and your students will attend.
 
PRESENTERS: 
Remy McCarthy, former assistant coach at the University of Utah (1983-87) and head coach at Oxnard College (1988), he has been the head coach at Moorpark College for men's basketball (1997-2014), and is currently the women's basketball assistant coach and the Kinesiology Health Education Department Chair.
 
Zareh Gorjian received his B.S. in Computer Science from CSUN, and M.S. in Computer Science from USC. He is a Lead Animator in the Science Data Visualization Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). With 25 yrs in computer graphics, he participated in animations for the IMAX movies "Destiny In Space" and "L5 First City In Space;” his work has appeared on the covers of Nature and Science magazines, as well as all major network television news programs, and Science and Discovery channels specials.
 
Tim Thompson received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Physics from CSU Los Angeles, and is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, ending this tour of duty as a technical staff of the U.S. Air Force School of Applied Cryptological Sciences.  He worked at NASA’s JPL in the Radio Astronomy Group. He is currently the President Emeritus of the Los Angeles Astronomical Society.
 
Wayne Zimmerman received his B.S. in Fluidics from Case Institute of Tech., and his M.S. in Aerospace Systems Engineering from USC.  He is former Chief Engineer for the Instruments and Science Data Systems Division at NASA’s JPL. He worked to develop the robotic systems that grew into the Mars robotic arms, starting with the Mars Pathfinder mission in 1998, the Mars Polar Lander, the Phoenix Mars mission, and most recently, the Mars Curiosity Rover.