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Mark Garstin, BIS 1983 This page was last reviewed on January 25, 2012   

 

quoted from http://www.thepg7.com/directors.html

"The Pleiades Group of Seven's Chief Technology Officer is Mark Garstin. Mark brings over 30 years of engineering Research and Development experience to the group with an ability to tackle problems and design systems in new frontier areas of technologies, concepts and theories.

Mark actually started his career in engineering while still in high school when he won the Philips' Canada Wide Young Scientist of the Year in 1975. He then went on to get his bachelor's degree from the University of Waterloo majoring in Computer Science and Neuroscience. He was President of the Mathematics Society at Waterloo.

After graduation he started out on a career eventually becoming a senior computer design engineer (in both HW and SW) working in such industries as medical diagnostics, military surveillance, electronic financial transactions, industrial control, biological research, and telecommunications.

Many of his projects were 'proof-of-concept' projects where he was able to draw upon technologies from across these diverse industries and combine them into new, disruptive technologies and concepts. His largest project was leading a team of engineers in a corporation (to which he was a founder) designing a complete immersive Virtual Reality system.

Not only did he lead the HW and SW design teams on this project but he was also responsible for setting up the labs, acquiring the tools and IT infrastructure, establishing the engineering processes and procedures and negotiating with vendors for supplies, equipment and development systems.

Mark holds a patent in encryption technology, has received a number of awards for engineering excellence and has authored several white papers on engineering processes and computer technologies.

Next year [March 2011], he will be presenting a paper that he has authored at the Space, Propulsion & Energy Sciences International Forum at the University of Maryland on the fundamental structure of the fabric of the universe, a companion paper to the one presented by Madonna-Megara Holloway at the same forum.

His passions, however, are in nuclear and molecular physics as well as astronomy, neuroscience and artificial intelligence, all tempered by a philosophy not to build something better but to discover and expose disruptive technologies to the market place."

 

A New Model for Matter, Space and Energy

 

 

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