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Dr. Rich Terrile offers Science and Technical Consulting Services for Motion Picture, Movies, Television, Corporate and Financial Customers as well as general public talks on Astronomy, Astrophysics, Planetary Exploration, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation Hypothesis.
Dr. Rich Terrile
- Dr. Rich Terrile is an astronomer and the director of the Center for Evolutionary Computation and Automated Design at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He uses techniques based on biological evolution and development to advance the fields of robotics and computer intelligence. He has a Ph.D. in Planetary Science from the California Institute of Technology and has developed missions to Mars and to the outer solar system. Dr. Terrile is the discoverer of four moons around Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and took the first pictures of another solar system around the nearby star Beta Pictoris. His other interests include planetary rings, planetary geology, evolutionary computation and the development of medical instrumentation for tissue identification during neurosurgery.
- Dr. Terrile is a private pilot, a SCUBA and ski instructor, a rock climber and caver, and was an astronaut candidate. He has interests in fiction writing, photography, cinematography and movies, and works as a technical advisor on several major motion pictures, including work with Academy Award winning directors James Cameron and Steven Soderbergh. Dr. Terrile was featured in several science shows and has been a regular performer at the Ice House and the Comedy Store in the "Improv Inferno" improvisation group. Contact: rich@terrile.com
Terrile Science and Technical Consulting Customers
- Motion Pictures- Movie Technical Advising, Script Consulting and Acting
- Television- Technical Advising, Writing, Appearances, Hosting, etc.
- Corporate and Financial- Technical Consulting, Intellectual Property Development, Corporate Optimization, etc.
Previous Presentations and Interviews
- The Universe as a Simulation - ideality September 23, 2015
- Whoa, Dude, Are We Inside a Computer Simulation? - Tech, Vice Magazine, September 11, 2012
- Is our world a simulation? Why some scientists say it's more likely than not - The Guardian, October 11, 2016
- Visual Effects Society Talk - VES Production Summit 2010, October 28, 2010
- VES Interview - VES Production Summit 2010, October 28, 2010
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