Erik Demaine

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Erik D. Demaine

Erik Demaine (left), Martin Demaine (center), and Bill Spight (right) watch John Horton Conway demonstrate a card trick (June 2005).
Born February 28, 1981 (1981-02-28) (age 29)
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Residence Flag of the United States.svg U.S.
Nationality Canadian and American
Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alma mater Dalhousie University
University of Waterloo

Erik D. Demaine (b. February 28, 1981, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), is an associate professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Early life

His childhood was spent travelling North America with his father, Martin Demaine, an artist and sculptor; he was home-schooled.[1] Erik entered Dalhousie University in Canada at the age of 12, and completed his bachelor's degree when only 14.[2][3]

Professional accomplishments

His Ph.D. dissertation, a seminal work in the field of computational origami, was completed at the University of Waterloo.[4] This work was awarded the Canadian Governor General's Gold Medal from the University of Waterloo and the NSERC Doctoral Prize, 2003, for the best Ph.D. thesis and research in Canada (one of four awards). This thesis work was largely incorporated into a book.[5]

In 2003 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He joined the MIT faculty in 2001, at age 20, reportedly the youngest professor in the history of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2][6]

He is a member of the Theory of Computation group at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Mathematical origami artwork by Erik and Martin Demaine was part of the “Design and the Elastic Mind” exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in 2008 and has been included in the MoMA permanent collection.[7]

References

  1. . Retrieved 2008-04-15. 
  2. ^ a b Wertheim, Margaret (2005-02-15). "Origami as the Shape of Things to Come". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/15/science/15origami.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5090&en=7c6938eb4b440672&ex=1266210000&partner=rssuserland. Retrieved 2008-04-15. 
  3. ^ O'Brien, Danny (2005-08-19). "Commercial origami starts to take shape". Irish Times. http://moreresults.factiva.com/results/index/index.aspx?ref=IRTI000020050819e18j00023. Retrieved 2008-04-15. 
  4. ^ "National honour for Demaine". University of Waterloo. 2003-03-31. http://newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca/news.php?id=2852. Retrieved 2008-04-15. 
  5. ^ Demaine, Erik; O'Rourke, Joseph (July 2007). Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra. Cambridge University Press. pp. Part II. ISBN 978-0-521-85757-4. http://www.gfalop.org. 
  6. ^ Beasley, Sandra (2006-09-22). "Knowing when to fold". American Scholar. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-25437873_ITM. 
  7. ^ Curved Origami Sculpture, Erik and Martin Demaine.

External links

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