The next Office of the CIO (OCIO) Community meeting is on Wednesday, March 21 2012, where our speaker will be Stan Honey, the Directory of Technology for the America's Cup.  He will be talking about New Technology Innovations at the 34th America's Cup.
 
Stan Honey is developing a system to track the America's Cup catamarans to within 2 cm, 10 times per second, and superimpose graphics elements such as ahead-behind lines on the live helicopter footage of the race. Previously America's Cup broadcasts have only featured graphics visible in an animated view of the race. The new graphics package is designed to help viewers follow the intense action of the AC45s and AC72s as they scream around the race course, all in live action. Opportunities to utilize the detailed data from the races are also being reviewed for internet viewers, mobile viewers, and real-time game applications.
 
A major figure in technological innovation in sports television, Mr. Honey co-founded Sportvision in 1998, where he led the development of the yellow first-down line widely used in the broadcast of American football, the ESPN "K-Zone" baseball pitch tracking and highlighting system, and the Race/FX tracking and highlighting system used in NASCAR. He also is recognized as one of the most successful professional navigators in sailing, having navigated ABN AMRO to victory in the 2005-2006 Volvo Ocean Race and having navigated Groupama 3 in setting the Jules Verne record for the fastest circumnavigation of the world under sail in 2010. Honey was recently awarded the US Sailing Rolex Yachtsman of the Year Award for 2010, one of the highest individual honors in sailing in the U.S.