15 Facts About Mark Pesce

Mark D Pesce is an American-Australian author, researcher, engineer, futurist and teacher.

In September 1980, Pesce attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a Bachelor of Science degree, but left in June 1982 to pursue opportunities in the newly emerging high-tech industry.

Mark Pesce worked as an engineer for the next few years, developing prototype firmware and software for SecurID cards.

In 1988, Mark Pesce joined Shiva Corporation, which pioneered and popularized dial-up networking.

In 1991, Mark Pesce founded the Ono-Sendai Corporation, named after a fictitious company in the William Gibson novel Neuromancer.

Mark Pesce developed a key technology, which earned Pesce his first patent for a "Sourceless Orientation Sensor" that tracks the motion of persons in virtual environments.

In 2003, Mark Pesce moved to Australia, where he continues to live, and became an Australian citizen on 4 February 2011.

Mark Pesce is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Sydney and was a judge on The New Inventors, a nationally televised program in Australia.

In 2006, Mark Pesce founded FutureSt, a Sydney consultancy, serving as an advisory to analytics firm PeopleBrowsr, and The Serval Project.

In 2008, Mark Pesce began writing an online column for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's The Drum Opinion.

Mark Pesce's current major project is Light MooresCloud, an ambient device of 52-LEDs which is a lamp with a LAMP-stack; the trademark pays homage to the inexpensive ubiquitous computing engendered by Moore's Law.

From January 2004 through January 2006, Mark Pesce was the senior lecturer in Emerging Media and Interactive Design at the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney, Australia.

Mark Pesce now holds an Honorary Appointment at the University of Sydney and has shared some of his lectures online.

Mark Pesce began his teaching career in 1996 as a VRML instructor at both the University of California at Santa Cruz and San Francisco State University, where he would later create the school's certificate program in the 3-D Arts.

In 1998, Mark Pesce was asked to join the faculty of the University of Southern California, as the founding chair of the Graduate Program in Interactive Media at the USC School of Cinema-Television.