Erik Demaine
| Erik D. Demaine | |
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 Erik Demaine (left), Martin Demaine (center), and Bill Spight (right) watch John Horton Conway demonstrate a card trick (June 2005). |
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| Born | February 28, 1981 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Residence |  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 a professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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[edit] Early life
Erik was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His parents are Martin Demaine and Judy Anderson. At age 7, he spent time travelling North America with his father, Martin Demaine, an artist and sculptor; he was home-schooled.[1] Demaine was a child prodigy.[2] He entered Dalhousie University in Canada at the age of 12, completed his bachelor's degree when only 14 and completed his PhD when only 20 years old.[3][4]
[edit] Professional accomplishments
His PhD dissertation, a seminal work in the field of computational origami, was completed at the University of Waterloo.[5] 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 PhD thesis and research in Canada (one of four awards). This thesis work was largely incorporated into a book.[6]
He joined the MIT faculty in 2001 at age 20, reportedly the youngest professor in the history of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3][7] In 2003 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
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.[8]
[edit] References
- ^ Barry, Ellen (2002-02-17). "Road Scholar Finds Home at MIT". Boston Globe. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BG&p_theme=bg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F1C278D90533407&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved 2008-04-15.
- ^ Kher, Unmesh (2005-09-04). "Calculating Change: Why Origami Is Critical to New Drugs: The Folded Universe". TIME. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101327,00.html. Retrieved 28 February 2011.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "National honour for Demaine". University of Waterloo. 2003-03-31. http://newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca/news.php?id=2852. Retrieved 2008-04-15.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Beasley, Sandra (2006-09-22). "Knowing when to fold". American Scholar. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-25437873_ITM.
- ^ Curved Origami Sculpture, Erik and Martin Demaine.
[edit] External links
- Erik Demaine
- Erik Demaine at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- Biography in MIT News
- Between the Folds Documentary film featuring Erik Demaine and 14 other international origami practitioners
