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Welcome to my updated website!
Take a look at my updated LinkedIn site and the ESCC Alumni page...
http://www.linkedin.com/in/johncordova
Check out some of the pictures and autographs I scanned in.
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| At the Forbidden City front gate. | Home Depot CEO Arthur Blank, the big boss while I was at THD. | Cassatt CEO Bill Coleman, another previous boss. |
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| Savannah 50-miler bike race. | Leonard Nimoy, John Cordova and William Shatner at NCTA 1998. | Fun in Tokyo! |
A nice letter from The Weather Channel...
The StarXL is a real time graphics system that displays your local forecast on the 8s. If you have watched The Weather Channel anytime in the last 14 years you have most likely seen my work. The software runs at the cable head-end on a specialized computer graphics machine, so each location has a different presentation. Data rendered is received via satellite and filtered into a local database in near realtime.
Before the StarXL, The Weather Channel local forecast looked like this...
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Today they have animated backgrounds and computer generated speech presenting the forecast! Much improved from the old days...
The Weather Channel was purchased from Landmark Communications for $3.5 billion by NBC Universal in 2008.
Some new additions as of 1/22/12... During travels around the world, I often try and find unique perspectives from which to create digital panoramas. Usually the photos are taken with a digital SLR, but sometimes they are created from iPhone pictures. Check them out at www.johncordova.com/panoramas
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There have been a number of updates recently. Most of the updates are videos and pdf content.
There is an interesting video that was produced when I was with the Interactive Media Technology Center at Georgia Tech. It is called the Science of Imagination. Click on each picture to see a different segment of the video.
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Moxy and Flea videos added! Click on each picture to see a different segment of the pilot episode. Chris Rock is the voice of Flea!
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...and check out some video from a firefighter training system created for the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg Maryland. Click on each picture to see different segments of the FEMA training video.
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