Kevin J. Hussey Kevin is currently the Manager of Visualization Technology Applications and Development at NASA/Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). His most recent achievements use video game technology to immerse the general public and JPL mission personnel in our solar system and beyond. "Eyes on the Earth 3D" and "Eyes on the Solar System" are cross-platform, real-time, 3D-interactive applications that run inside a web browser. Kevin, who was classically trained in Earth remote sensing and climatic geomorphology, has spent the majority of his 32-year career pioneering innovative tools and techniques to graphically represent virtually every type of data and abstract information used by NASA and Walt Disney Feature Animation. The FBI, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, National Archives, NASA and the DOD (Air Force, Army, Navy and Marines) have all consulted Kevin as an expert in image synthesis and analysis. Kevin has managed teams of software developers, engineers and artists to visualize everything from scanning electron microscopy and radio galaxies to earthquakes and Disney cartoon characters. While at Feature Animation, he managed software developers and support engineers for the ongoing development and support of Disney’s Academy Award-winning Computer Animation Production System (CAPS), and then became the Manager of Information Technology before returning to JPL. Kevin’s career passion and forte is in the visual/graphical representation of complex information in a manner that can be quickly and clearly understood. Kevin plans to someday elevate his career and become a teacher.

Veronica McGregor manages the news office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and routinely updates over one million Twitter followers who don't know her real name. She began on Twitter in 2008 as @MarsPhoenix, tweeting the life and times of the lovable lander on Mars. Veronica currently manages Twitter accounts @AsteroidWatch, @MarsRovers, and @NASAJPL, among others (her personal account is @VeronicaMcG). In 2010 she was named by Forbes.com as one of 20 inspirational women to follow on Twitter, and she was awarded NASA's Exceptional Achievement Medal for developing new approaches to communicate NASA missions to the public. She was also awarded a Shorty Award for her work as @MarsPhoenix. Other activities include organizing NASA's first tweetup at JPL, which became the model for tweetups held at NASA centers across the country; and creating some of NASA's first live streaming/live chat events on Ustream.tv as a way to connect the public directly to mission scientists and engineers. In 2010, her office launched "Curiosity Cam" on Ustream to introduce viewers to the next rover to Mars (named Curiosity) while it undergoes construction inside a clean room. Veronica also manages an office that produces over 400 news items and dozens of videos each year highlighting NASA missions that are monitoring Earth, exploring the planets, and searching for worlds beyond our solar system.