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October
2004
October
12,
Anthony Daniels, the actor who plays "C-3PO"
in the Star Wars movies, visited the EventScope lab. In
town for C-3PO's induction into the Robot Hall of Fame, Daniels
came down to the lab where he was treated to live demos of the
EventScope software, including the Life in the Atacama Science
Ops Interface. Click here to see
a picture.
October
11,
Eben Myers, an EventScope content designer,
presented a poster at the IEEE InfoVis 2004 symposium on Austin,
TX. Titled,
"EventScope: Bringing Remote Experience of Mars to the Public
through Telepresence," the poster covered EventScope's education
and public outreach pipeline for transforming data from rover
and orbital missions into educational lessons for the public.
Click here to learn more.
September
2004
September 18,
EventScope Designer Eben Myers presented
a recap of the recent Life in the Atacama Science Operations at
the Carnegie Museum of Natural History's Earth Theater. The
talk was simultaneously broadcast to the Adler Planetarium in
Chicago, where Illinois Congressman Mark Kirk was in the audience
along with the 10th District Laureates, a group of gifted seventh
graders. Myers used the EventScope public interface to show 3D
models and 2D imagery from the desert.
September
12-18,
Remote Science Operations for the Life in
the Atacama 2004 mission took place in the Remote Experience and
Learning Lab. Scientists
from NASA, the University of Arizona, the University of Tennessee,
Stanford, and UCLA all gathered in Pittsburgh to study data as
it was returned from the rover. Though "unambiguous"
proof of life has yet to be confirmed, the team is looking forward
to another week of remote science from October 3rd through the
9th. EventScope is serving as both the remote science interface
and as the public interface to the rover's view of the desert.
July 2004
July
31, A poster featuring EventScope has been
accepted to the Tenth Annual IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
(InfoVis 2004). The
poster will be presented on August 11th at InfoVis in Austin,
TX.
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