WISE has released an all-sky image atlas and catalog of objects in bands infrared bands at 3.4, 4.6, 12 and 22 microns. The scientific data are available at the Infrared Science Archive. Here is a cool zoomable all-sky image.
Ned Wright, 65 years old, is a professor at UCLA. He did far-infrared observations using a 102-cm balloon-borne telescope for his PhD thesis, and has since observed with the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, and the space-based COBE, WMAP, Spitzer and WISE missions.