O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference - June 29-30, 2005

Speaker

Patrick Hogan
NASA Learning Technologies

Patrick Hogan managed the NASA Learning Technologies program for the past three years, an incubator of education technologies pushing the envelope for delivery of scientific data. The mission has been to engineer open source solutions that leverage open data standards and result in sustainable technologies that can be extended in both open and proprietary ways. Several successful projects have come out of this program including a virtual scanning electron microscope (see things at 50,000x magnification) that also displays the full spectrographic analysis, software that allows blind people to aurally visualize mathematical equations, and a fully navigable 3D experience of research quality NASA geospatial data.