Denver, CO, USA — IMERSA (Immersive Media Entertainment, Research, Science & Arts) has announced that Jeri Panek, Director of Sales at Evans & Sutherland, will receive lifetime honors at the organization’s 2014 Summit in Denver, March 6-9.
A graduate of the University of Utah at the time that campus was at the forefront of the computer graphics revolution, Panek has been instrumental for over 25 years in guiding E&S through the advent and development of fulldome video and digital fulldome technology, helping position the company as an industry leader with its Digistar line of products.
Science fictions fans know Panek as part of the E&S team responsible for tactical displays and starfields in the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn, for which she is listed in the film’s credits.