2003-10-19

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2003/oct08/demaine.html

PHOTO / DONNA COVENEY
Erik Demaine solved the “carpenter’s rule problem.”


MORE INFORMATION:
Father and son share love of art, computer science - MIT Tech Talk, Oct. 8, 2003

A 22-year-old MIT professor whose work fuses art, science, work and play is the recipient of a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as the “genius” grant.

Assistant Professor Erik Demaine of electrical engineering and computer science—who last month was called one of the most brilliant scientists in America by Popular Science magazine—is one of the youngest people ever selected for the fellowship and the youngest of the 24 named this year.

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