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"mat irvine was born on 7 july 1948 he is a technical consultant and visual effects designer who worked on television primarily for the bbc from the 1970s to the 1990sas a technical consultant irvine worked on shows such as the sky at night tomorrows world and most recently robot wars on which he was hired as a technical consultant in 1998as a visual effects designer irvine worked on shows such as rentaghost terry and june blakes 7 the tripods edge of darkness and to the manor bornhe is perhaps best known for his work on doctor who for which he was a visual effects designer from the 1970s to the 1980s he is credited with building the first k9 prop for the serial the invisible enemy 1977 he was not told that it would be required beyond that story thus the prop he designed was only capable of traversing the studio floor and proved useless when brought on location for subsequent stories irvine eventually built a second k9 that could cover rougher ground he occasionally operated the k9 prop during filminghis connection with k9 has continued in 1981 irvine served as visual effects designer for the doctor who spinoff k9 and company in 1993 he operated k9 for the doctor who charity special dimensions in time in 1999 he once again operated the robotic dog when a model k9 in reality one of the original props was given to the character vince as a birthday present in queer as folk he operated k9 in an episode of totally doctor who in 2006he spoke about his work on blakes 7 and the tripods in 2006 on bbc fours the cult of series in the episodes the cult ofblakes 7 and the cult ofthe tripodsnowadays he makes appearances at scifi and doctor who conventions often alongside k9he appeared alongside k9 the mark iii model used on k9 and company and elisabeth sladen on totally doctor who in july 2006"
"charles m falco born august 17 1948 is an american experimental physicist and an expert on the magnetic and optical properties of thin film materialsfalco earned his phd at the university of california irvine in 1974 and spent the next eight years at argonne national laboratory before joining the university of arizona in 1982 as a professor of optical sciences in 1989 he received the alexander von humboldt foundation senior distinguished us scientist award and in 1998 was awarded the ua chair of condensed matter physics falco a fellow of the american physical society the institute of electrical and electronics engineers ieee the optical society of america and the society of photooptical instrumentation engineers spie has published more than 250 scientific manuscripts most of which are related to physical properties of materials produced by molecular beam epitaxy mbe coedited two books has seven us patents and has given more than 250 invited talks on his research at conferences and research institutions in 25 countriesin addition to his scientific research in 1971 falco was one of three participants in chris burdens performance art piece 220 and since 1985 his photography has been represented by the agency photoresearchers in 1998 falco was cocurator of the solomon r guggenheim museums the art of the motorcycle for which he also wrote the exhibition catalogs introductory essay and bibliography with over 2 million visitors in new york chicago bilbao spain and the guggenheim las vegas it was the most successful exhibition of industrial design ever assembled and one of the most attended museum exhibition of any kind for this work he received an award from the international association of art critics along with architect frank gehry museum director thomas krens and filmmaker ultan guilfoyle in 1999 falco was a technical advisor for the nam june paik retrospective at the guggenheimin 2000 falco began collaborating with the britishamerican artist david hockney resulting in their discovery of scientific evidence in paintings made as early as c1430 that demonstrated portions of them were created with the aid of optical projections hockneys 2001 book secret knowledge resulted in widespread coverage of the hockneyfalco thesis in the popular media including an hourlong bbc special and a segment on the cbs show 60 minutes in 2008 falco gave the us national art education associations ziegfeld lecture awarded for his role in this theory and for its importance for art education"
"steve woodberry born october 9 1971 is a retired american basketball player who played professionally in the australian national basketball league and also in europe he played as a point guard shooting guard and small forward he is currently an assistant coach at wake forest universitywoodberry was born in wichita kansas and attended wichita south high school he played on two state title teams and was named kansas naismith player of the year as a senior in 1990he then played college basketball with the kansas jayhawks and was a part of two final four teams at kansas in 1991 and 1993 woodberry was named to the second team allbig eight in both his junior and senior seasonin 1994 woodberry won a championship in the swiss league with belinzona and then moved to australia where he played for the gold coast rollers in 1995 in his first season in australia woodberry averaged 245 points 74 assists and 76 rebounds per game however he suffered a training accident and was forced to return to kansas for intensive training and recoverywoodberry returned to australia in 1996 to play for the brisbane bullets with the bullets he was the nbl most valuable player in 1999 and was named in the allnbl first team in 1998 and 1999 he then played a single season with the sydney kings in 2000woodberry subsequently spent two seasons playing professionally in lithuania for zalgiris kaunas which won a lithuanian championship in 2001 when he was voted the leagues import player of the year he later played for the athletic union of constantinople in athens greece 20022003 jamtland in sweden 2004 and honka espoo in finland 2004 before retiring as an active player in 2006woodberry was an assistant basketball coach at missouri state from 2006 to 2012 he left in 2012 to become an assistant to fellow kansas alum danny manning at tulsa he then followed manning to wake forest in 2014"
"professor marilyn mantei tremaine is an american computer scientist she is an expert in humancomputer interaction and is a past chair of the sigchi special interest group of the association for computing machinerymarilyn tremaine was educated at the university of wisconsin gaining a bs in french mathematics and physics and then at the university of southern california gaining an msc and phd in communication theorydr tremaine was a professor in the university of michigan business school and then a professor in the computer science department of the university of toronto canada she is currently a research professor at rutgers university at piscataway new jersey she holds joint appointments in the college of communication and information and the department of electrical and computer engineering she is a professor emerita at the new jersey institute of technologyshe has also been vice president of product development for three software startup companies and a senior research scientist at the eds center for applied researchmarilyn tremaine cofounded acm sigchi and has served as sigchis vicepresident of communications finance and conference planning as well as being president dr tremaine has served on six editorial boards for journals and has received two university teaching awards she has also received the acm sigchi lifetime service award the chcss lifetime career award the 2010 upa lifetime achievement award and an apple design awarddr tremaine is especially known for her work on collaborative software her research interests include auditory and multimodal interface design global software development and the development of interfaces for the blind and visually impairedmarilyn tremaine is married to the astrophysicist scott tremaine"