| Dr. Elliot McGucken |
| Dr. E is spearheading the ArtsEntrepreneurship.com program at UNC Chapel Hill. He founded jollyroger.com in 1995, and now runs over 30 sites. He presented Authena Open Source DRM/CMS at the Harvard Law School OSCOM, and 22surf was accepted to the Zurich OSCOM. Both Authena and 22surf are aimed at helping indie artists/creators. Dr. E received a B.A. in physics from Princeton and a Ph.D. in physics from UNC Chapel Hill where his dissertation on an artifical retina for the blind received several NSF grants and a Merrill Lynch Innovations Award. The retina-chip research appeared in publications including Popular Science and Business Week, and the project continues to this day. The New York Times deemed jollyroger.com "simply unprecedented," adding that the site "teems with discussion, the kind that goes well beyond freshman lit 101." Dr. E has published four books including two novels and a poetry collection. |
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