Technical Lead, Desktop Video Expert Center, NASA Ames Research Center

Raytheon

(July 1998 – Present)

Technical Lead, Desktop Video Expert Center, NASA Ames Research Center

Sterling Software

(January 1997 – June 1998)

Software Engineer/Project Manager

CompCore Multimedia Incorporated

(January 1995 – October 1996)

Senior Software Engineer

ASCNet Incorporated

(September 1993 – August 1994)

Research Assistant

Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

(January 1987 – December 1992)

Teaching Assistant

Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

(August 1985 – December 1986)

Ph.D., Physics, January 1993

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

M.S., Physics, August 1987

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

B.S., Physics, June 1985

California Institute of Technology

By Andrew B. Watson, James Hu, John F. McGowan III, Jeffrey B. Mulligan

(NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035)

Proceedings of the SPIE (1999)
Volume 3644
Human Vision and Electronic Imaging IV
B.E. Rogowitz and T.N. Pappas, Editors
64 papers, April 1999

Presented at the Human Vision and Electronic Imaging IV
Conference, 23-29 January, 1999, San Jose, California

Porting Complex Multimedia Algorithms: An MPEG Example
By John F. McGowan

Published in March 1998, Multimedia Systems Design

Precise determination of the weak mixing angle from a measurement of A(LR) in e+ e- ---> Z0.
By SLD Collaboration (M. Woods et al.). May 1994.
Presented at 29th Rencontres de Moriond: Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, Meribel, France, 12-19 Mar 1994.
Published in Moriond 1994: Electroweak:0115-122 (QCD161:R4:1994:V.1)
e-Print Archive: hep-ex/9405011

Measuring A(b) with polarized beams at SLC.
By SLD Collaboration (K. Abe et al.). May 1994.
Presented at 29th Rencontres de Moriond: QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions, Meribel les Allues, 19-26 Mar 1994.
Published in Moriond 1994: Electroweak:0123-130 (QCD161:R4:1994:V.1)

Precise measurement of the left-right cross-section asymmetry in Z boson production by e+ e- collisions.
By SLD Collaboration (K. Abe et al.). Mar 1994.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.73:25-29,1994
e-Print Archive: hep-ex/9404001

A Study of jet handedness at the Z0 resonance.
By SLD Collaboration (H. Masuda et al.). Oct 1993.
Submitted to Int. Europhysics Conf. on High Energy Physics, Marseille, France, Jul 22-28, 1993.
In *Marseille 1993, Proceedings, High energy physics* 306-308, and SLAC Stanford - SLAC-PUB-6362 (93/10,rec.Dec.) 3 p. C.

Measurement of the charged multiplicity of Z0 ---> b anti-b events.
By SLD Collaboration (K. Abe et al.). Oct 1993.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.72:3145-3149,1994
e-Print Archive: hep-ex/9405004

A Measurement of R(b) = Gamma (Z0 ---> b anti-b) / Gamma (Z0 ---> hadrons) at SLD.
By SLD Collaboration (K. Abe et al.). Sep 1993.
Submitted to Int. Symp. on Lepton - Photon Interactions, Ithaca, NY, Aug 10-15, 1993.
In *Marseille 1993, High energy physics* 468-469.

A Measurement of alpha-s from jet rates at the Z0 resonance.
By SLD Collaboration (K. Abe et al.). Jul 1993.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.71:2528-2532,1993

SLD results from the study of polarized Z0 produced at the SLC.
By SLD Collaboration (Marcello Piccolo et al.). Jul 1993.
Presented at Rencontres de la Valle d'Aoste, La Thuile, Italy, Mar 7-10, 1993.
Published in La Thuile Rencontres 1993:333-350 (QCD161:R342:1993)

Studies of QCD B physics and jet handedness at SLD.
By SLD Collaboration (P.N. Burrows et al.). Jun 1993.
Presented at Rencontre de Moriond, QCD and High-Energy Hadronic Interactions, Les Arcs, France, Mar 20-27, 1993.
Published in Moriond 1993: Hadronic:0399-406 (QCD161:R4:1993:V.2)

First measurement of the left-right asymmetry in Z boson production.
By SLD Collaboration (R.D. Elia et al.). May 1993.
Published in Mod.Phys.Lett.A8:2237-2248,1993

First measurement of the left-right cross-section asymmetry in Z boson production by e+ e- collisions.
By SLD Collaboration (K. Abe et al.). Jan 1993.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.70:2515-2520,1993

A study of e+ e- ---> pi+ pi- pi0 pi0 at 3.090-GeV center-of-mass energy.
By John Francis McGowan, III. 1993.
Ph.D.Thesis.

First results from SLD with polarized electron beam at SLC.
By SLD Collaboration (Michael J. Fero et al.). Dec 1992.
To be presented at SLAC Summer Inst. on Particle Physics, Stanford, CA, Jul 13-24, 1992.
Published in SLAC Summer Inst.1992:341-358 (QCD161:S76:1992)

QCD studies of hadronic decays of Z0 bosons by SLD.
By SLD Collaboration (D. Muller et al.). Nov 1992.
Presented at the 26th International Conference on High Energy Physics, Dallas, TX, Aug 6-12, 1992.
Published in Dallas HEP 1992:892-898 (QCD161:H51:1992)

Measurements of spin sensitive quantities in hadronic decays of Z0 bosons produced in e+ e- annihilations.
By SLD Collaboration (P.N. Burrows et al.). Nov 1992.
Presented at the 10th Int. Symp. on High Energy Spin Physics, Nagoya, Japan, Nov 9-14, 1992.
Published in Nagoya Spin Wkshp.1992:643-648 (QCD161:S921:1992)

A Preliminary measurement of R(b) = Gamma (Z0 ---> b anti-b) / Gamma (Z0 ---> hadrons) at SLD.
By SLD Collaboration (D. Su et al.). Nov 1992.
Presented at DPF meeting, Batavia, IL, Nov 10-17, 1992.
Published in DPF Conf.1992:342-347 (QCD161:A6:1992)

First measurement of the left-right cross-section asymmetry in Z boson production at E(cm) = 91.5-GeV.
By SLD Collaboration (K. Abe et al.). Aug 1992.
Contributed to the 26th International Conference on High Energy Physics, Dallas, TX, Aug 6-12, 1992.
Published in Dallas HEP 1992:708-715 (QCD161:H51:1992) (Presented by Rowson in proceedings)

First QCD results from SLD.
By SLD Collaboration (P.N. Burrows et al.). Apr 1992.
Presented at Rencontre de Moriond: QCD and High-Energy Hadronic Interactions, Les Arcs, France, Mar 22-28, 1992.
In *Les Arcs 1992, Proceedings, Perturbative QCD and hadronic interactions* 43-48, and SLAC Stanford - SLAC-PUB-5802 (92/04,rec.Aug.) 9 p. (see Conference Index).

B decays and spectroscopy.
By SLD B Spectroscopy Group (I. Peruzzi et al.). 1989.
In *Kirkwood 1989, SLD physics studies* 175-185.

A STATUS REPORT ON THE SLD DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM.
By SLD Collaboration (Martin Breidenbach et al.). Nov 1988.
Presented at Nuclear Science Symp., Orlando, FL, Nov 9-11, 1988.
Published in IEEE Trans.Nucl.Sci.36:23-28,1989

By John F. McGowan, Ph.D.

The Second International Convention of the Mars Society

August 12-15, 1999

University of Colorado at Boulder

(Paper forthcoming in Proceedings of the Convention)

By John F. McGowan, Ph.D.

1999 International Symposium on Space Communication and Navigation Technologies (DESCANSO)

September 21-23, 1999

Sponsored by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, California