Launcher of the ArtsEntrepreneurship.com program at UNC Chapel Hill, McGuckin currently spearheads the program at Pepperdine University, where he will be hosting the Hero's Odyssey Entrepreneurship festival. He founded jollyroger.com in 1995, and now runs over 30 sites ranging in topics from Shakespeare, to physics, to philosophy, to business and entrepreneurship. He presented Authena Open Source DRM/CMS at the Harvard Law School OSCOM, and 22surf was accepted to the Zurich OSCOM. Both Authena and 22surf are aimed at helping indie artists/creators, as is his upcoming 45 Surf Hero's Odyssey Entrepreneurship project. McGucken received a B.A. in physics from Princeton and a Ph.D. in physics from UNC Chapel Hill where his dissertation on an artificial retina for the blind received several NSF grants and a Merrill Lynch Innovations Award. The retina-chip research appeared in publications including Popular Science and Business Week, and the project continues to this day. The New York Times deemed jollyroger.com "simply unprecedented," adding that the site "teems with discussion, the kind that goes well beyond freshman lit 101." McGuckin has published four books including two novels and a poetry collection, and is currently completing a book on entrepreneurship.
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