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President Morphonix, Lead Design, Composer
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Karen Littman
Karen Littman is the founder and President of Morphonix, LLC.
She has extensive experience in developing film and computer-based programs. As a producer, writer, and designer, Littman has received over $4 million in grants from the federal government and foundations for projects she initiated and developed. Karen's career has spanned award winning multimedia titles, Super Bowl commercials, and films.
Littman is a consultant to corporations and non-profit organizations. She also founded a film production company and two non-profits. She is a professionally trained pianist, composer, and vocalist.
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Artist, Animator
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Kelly Day
Kelly Day is a computer graphic and visual effects artist. He has credits in several feature films including most recently in the DreamWorks film "Anchorman." During the 1990's, Kelly was a Technical Director and Producer for Walt Disney Television Animation. He began his career at Disney as a background artist, and eventually established and managed the Walt Disney Television Computer Labs. Kelly has also designed for several animated video games and network cartoon shows, including, Ghost Busters, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Alf. He received his BA in Industrial Design, Animation and Illustration from California State University, Northridge, in 1979. |
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Writer, Design
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Jay Leibold
Jay Leibold has written more than twenty-five interactive books and software titles. He has worked with some of the biggest names in both industries, from Bantam Doubleday Dell and Scholastic to IBM. He began by writing fifteen titles for the famed Choose Your Own Adventure series, the bestselling books that first introduced interactive narrative to a wide audience. He was lead writer and co-designer of Journey into the Brain. In addition, he wrote 3D Castle Creator, published by IBM and Crayola, which won Best Creativity Title in 1999, and co-wrote StrategyHeads from Theatrix. In 2000-2001, he combined books and interactive web writing in the Digital Detectives series. He has also written and edited a number of traditional narrative books, both fiction and nonfiction. He wrote a Batman book, Subzero (as "James Raven"), and ghost-wrote ice skater Michelle Kwan's autobiography (as "Laura James"). He did a fiction series with Bantam called Dojo Rats,about San Francisco city kids who fight crime. |
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Artist, Medical Illustrator
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Chris Gralapp
Christine Gralapp, Artist, Designer, is a Medical Illustrator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to her specialization in neurobiology and the special senses, her subject matter includes all things scientific, from the anatomical to the archaeological. She has contributed artwork to numerous books, journals, CD-ROMs, and other educational media. |
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Sound Design, Composer
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Ben Gabaldon
Ben Gabaldon is a sound arts graduate from Ex’pression College for Digital Arts contributing his education in composition, sound design, and multimedia management. After realizing that he spent all of his time writing music, and operating a recording studio from his home in Las Vegas, he decided to pursue an education and career in sound. Dropping everything immediately, he rushed off to the Bay Area, earned his BAS, and began his career in sound three years later. In this time, he has gained experience in nearly every realm of sound, from studio recording, live production, Foley, midi composition, to sound design for film and games. |
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Lead Programmer
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Blake Drolson
Blake Drolson, programmer, has been programming computers since the age
of 13, when he fell in love with interactive game software and the idea
that you could change the code that controlled the interactions the game
would provide. After graduating with a M.S. in engineering from the
Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois in
1991, he has worked on many applications, including brain imaging,
virtual simulation, and game programming. Having worked on all aspects
of game programming, he has participated in the creation of major titles
and small games, including Rampage World Tour, Fun Fair, and Crashday.
Now working on Neuromatrix, he is happy to be working on a title that
helps children, and gives him a chance to get the nanobots out of his
brain before it turns to pudding. |
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Flash Programmer
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Julia Huff
Julia Huff graduated from Colorado State University with a BS in Biology. She began her career in web technologies in 1996 with the likes of Egghead and eBay. Today she is contributing her Flash skills to eLearning based projects. Spare time is spent riding motorcycles in the Sierras. |
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Senior Programmer
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Dennis Crowley
Dennis Crowley has worn many hats, but after deciding to pursue his hobby of graphics programming as a career, he has never looked back. He returned to the University of California at Santa Cruz to earn his B.S. in Computer Science (with honors) and has been developing interactive graphics applications for the Web, PCs, and game consoles ever since. He has worked for small internet startups (that no one will remember) and a larger internet startup (that everyone should do their best to forget), before returning to game development. Having spent his most recent years working on PS2, XBOX, and GameCube titles for Big Ape Productions and Lucas Arts, he is happy to be working on something that he can actually let his young children see. |
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Summative Evaluation
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Warren Young, Ph.D.
Dr. Young has more than twenty years of neuroscience imaging hardware, software development experience. He is currently the CEO of 3D Vision Systems, Inc in Irvine, CA, producing the first digital 3D stereoscopic surgery workstation. Dr. Young is the co-founder of AvantiPodia, Inc. in San Diego, a start-up company in neurodegeneration and spinal cord repair and is also a co-founder of Neurome, Inc., a platform based drug discovery biotech company in La Jolla, CA with programs focused on neurodegenerative disorders. He also owns a consulting firm - YTIG - in San Diego and sits on the Board of ReWire Therapies, an Australian neuroscience company. Dr. Young was the Director of Neuropharmacology Computing at The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA and a post-doctoral student at the Salk Research Institute. Dr. Young holds a PhD in Neurosciences from the University of CA, San Diego.
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Evaluator
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Laura Minnigerode
Laura Minnigerode is the formative evaluator for Neuromatrix. She is an instructional designer as well as a former middle school teacher. She holds a Master's in Education (in Human Development) from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and California teaching credentials. |
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Curriculum Designer
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Penelope A. Dyer, Ph.D.
Penny Dyer is the CEO of Curriculum Design Institute and the founder and President of ITTT, Innovative Tailor-made Training and Technology, a non-profit grants and evaluation group. She has a doctorate in education with over 25 years of experience in teacher education and designing curriculum.
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Curriculum Designer
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Mary Riordan-Karlsson, Ed.D.
Mary is a senior curriculum designer with Curriculum Design Institute. She has a doctorate in education from University of California, Berkeley with over 20 years of experience as a teacher in New York City and Silicon Valley, a researcher, an author, a television host, and a digital media designer. |
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Flash Programmer
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Aaron Kalb
Aaron Kalb, a high school Junior at the Marin School of Arts and Technology, has been creating interactive media and digital art for more than half his life. In 5th grade, his educational math game, "Sir Rebral Cortex and His Sane Machine" won "Best Student CD-Rom" at the North Bay Multimedia Association's Best of the Bay competition and in 10th grade, a stop-motion animated anti-war short he co-created won "Outstanding Achievement in Animation" at the International Student Film Festival. Aaron came to Morphonix, for part of his school's Workplace Learning Experience program. His primary role is Flash programmer for the puzzles in Neuromatrix. At Morphonix Aaron is also learning about and participating in various aspects of game development including design, sound, graphics and animation. In his spare time, Aaron enjoys eating Thai Food, hanging out with his friends, camping, and, of course, making computer games. |
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Programmer
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Marty Brewer
Marty Brewer, Technical Director, Designer, graduated from Stanford University with a BS in Biology and emphasis in mathematics and engineering fundamentals. His programming languages include Lingo (Director), C, C++, Pascal and HTML. His experience includes developing numerous CD-ROM and web applications for children and adults. Marty is interested in the use of new technologies in the educational arena. As a student and teacher, he found that participation is an essential element of the learning process and believes that the near future will demonstrate interactive technology's ability to involve, enlighten and enrich the mind. |
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Project Coordinator, Webmaster
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Tim Ayers
Tim Ayers, Designer, Project Coordinator, Production Artist, and Webmaster, comes to multimedia from video production, where he has worked as a production coordinator and manager. Tim went to college in New Paltz, New York and Middlesex Polytechnic in London to study theater and film. |
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Artist, Animator
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Madeline Preisner
Madeline Preisner, Designer, Illustrator and Animator, has worked on CD-ROM and video games since 1991, making the switch from commercial and editorial illustration to create interactive art. Following her interests from fashion and product illustration to graphic and packaging design, Madeline worked as an Art Director for several years before opening her own studio in 1983. |
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Artist
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Gerald McDermott
Gerald McDermott, Artist, is an artist whose illustrated books and animated films have brought him international recognition. He is the winner of the prestigious Caldecott Medal, Caldecott Honor Award, and many other awards for outstanding illustration. He also received the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival and numerous international film awards. Mr. McDermott is listed in Who's Who in American Art. His children's books include the Caldecott Award-winning Arrow To the Sun and Anansi the Spider. |
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Activity Design
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Margo Nanny
Margo Nanny, Activity Designer, started as a middle school Math games teacher. In 1987 she turned Disney's Donald in Mathmagic Land into an early HyperCard/videodisk prototype. She became a founding member of Apple's Multimedia Lab where she designed activities for The Visual Almanac. She co-authored CountDown and Planetary Taxi (Voyager) and co-designed Sim Town for Maxis. She was involved in Broderbund's Math workshop, and was designer /producer of a kid's code cracking product, Top Secret Decoder. |
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Composer, Musician
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Richard Manzullo
Richard Manzullo, Composer and Musician, fondly known as Bommer, is a composer and recording artist who has composed songs and music for Journey into the Brain.
Morgen Smith, Ambient Media, Sound Designer, has a studio in San Rafael, CA that specializes in Digital Audio Services.
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Child Advisor
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Rachel Levinson
Rachel Louise Levinson-Emley, Child Advisor, has been involved with "Journey Into the Brain" for about four and a half years. She enjoys playing computer games, reading, talking with friends, reading, writing, reading, acting, reading, singing, reading, using her brain, and did I say reading? She is proud to see her name appear in credits, and hopes to see that more. |
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Morphonix Neuroscience Advisors
 Floyd Bloom, MD, Professor Emeritus, The Scripps Research Institute
Eric H. Chudler, Ph.D.
Research Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington
Director of Education of Outreach, University of Washington Engineered Biomaterials
Rob Malenka, MD, Ph.D, Pritzker Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Director Nancy Pritzker Laboratory
Nicholas Schiff, MD, Assistant Professor Neurology and Neuroscience, Cornell University
Arthur Toga, Ph.D, Professor Neurology, UCLA, Director Laboratory Neuro Imaging, Co-Director, Division of Brain Mapping
Mark Tramo MD, Ph.D Director, The Institute for Music and Brain Science, Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT
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Benjamin Young
Matthew Young
David Schwarz
Michael Schwarz
Silas Schwarz
Neuromatrix Teen Advisors
Elektra Fike-Data
Aaron Kalb
Alex States
Jordan Duncan
Jarrod Blagoyevich
Katrina (Kat) Sonka
Mackenzie Ross
Maddy Ross
Natalie Day
Jacob Quinn Shenker
Ben Linsay
Kyle Blank
Mariel Price
Austin Blank
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