Morton Heilig, Dr. Phillip Mittleman, Dr. Alexander Schure, and John Whitney Sr. were mentors to Greg during his early exploration of computer graphics as a career path.
While at OU, he worked in all aspects of television production for WOUB-TV a PBS TV station based in Athens, Ohio, as he also studied electronic music, journalism, and photography.
While at NYIT Greg rubbed shoulders with many CGL veterans including Lance Williams, Pat Hanrahan, Carter Burwell, Fred Parke, Peter Oppenheimer and many others.
Mr. Panos moved to California in 1982 to work with GTI Inc. (subsequently acquired by Rediffusion Simulation) as an applications engineer for their novel real-time (computer) image generation system the "POLY2000" which found a place in many aerospace companies including Rockwell International.
Greg joined the Rockwell Space Station Systems Division (SSSD) as a member of the technical staff (MTS) and lead engineer instrumental in creating their premiere visualization / simulation laboratory to employing real-time, flight simulation technology toward visualization of preliminary designs for early proposals to NASA for the International Space Station project.