NES Optica is turning 75!
Founded in 1949 to promote "advancement of optics and/or closely allied sciences", the NES Optica, formerly the NES OSA, has now been the premiere optics professional society in the greater Boston area for three quarters of a century.
Please join us for an early evening of retrospectives on our society's history, featured technical talks, and more. The venue for evening will be the MIT museum in Cambridge. The talks and retrospectives will take place from 5-7pm, but all registered attendees will get free admission to the MIT Museum all day, so we encourage you to arrive during exhibit hall hours (which end at 5pm).
This is a celebration of our organization's history, and in that spirit we are happy to feature as our keynote speaker Dr. Stuart Elby, a man who is part of the biggest and brightest optical project of our generation, Sphere in Las Vegas.
Sphere: Technology for a New Medium
ABSTRACT
Stu Elby, a member of Optica, has played a role in leading the technological innovation that has made Sphere a next-generation entertainment medium. Developing Sphere required technologies that did not yet exist, and Elby and his team were key in bringing them to life. In this session, several key technologies developed for Sphere will be highlighted.
BIO
Dr. Stuart Elby
Senior Vice President, Advanced Engineering
Sphere Entertainment Co.
Dr. Stuart Elby is Senior Vice President, Advanced Engineering at MSG Ventures, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sphere Entertainment Co. focused on developing advanced technologies for live entertainment. In this role, he is responsible for the development of new media and entertainment technologies spanning visual, audio, haptic, and sensory, including those that have been deployed at Sphere in Las Vegas, such as the venue’s immersive sound system, immersive seating, and 4D effects.
Prior to joining MSG Ventures, Stu served as Senior Vice President, Cloud Strategy and Network Technology at Infinera Corporation where he was responsible for the P&L of their data center networking product portfolio targeted at cloud and data center operators. He also led R&D activities in packet-optical optimization.
Prior to Infinera, Stu served as Vice President and Chief Technologist of Verizon Labs and Verizon Digital Media Service. During his tenure at Verizon, Stu had significant influence in both the architecture and development of Verizon's networks and services platforms, including the migration to packet voice, the adoption of MPLS, introduction of wavelength switching/ROADM platforms, the first live Carrier 100G long haul circuit, and automated digital media distribution services.
Stu serves on several university and industry advisory boards. He holds a B.S. in Optical Engineering from the University of Rochester and an MSEE and PhD from Columbia University.