 Erik Demaine (left), Martin Demaine (center), and Bill Spight (right) watch John Horton Conway do a card trick in June 2005 Erik D. Demaine (b. February 28, 1981, in Halifax, Nova Scotia), is an associate professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 558 pixelsFull resolution‎ (1,136 × 792 pixels, file size: 153 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photo cropped by author on March 15, 2007 from Image:Erik_Demaine_et_al_2005. ...
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John Horton Conway (born December 26, 1937, Liverpool, England) is a prolific mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory. ...
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His childhood was spent traveling North America with his father, Martin Demaine, an artist and sculptor; he was home-schooled. Erik entered Dalhousie University at the age of 12, and completed his bachelor's degree when only 14. North America North America is a continent[1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ...
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His Ph.D. dissertation, a seminal work in the field of computational origami, was completed at the University of Waterloo. This work was awarded the 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.[1] Aquatint of a Doctor of Divinity at the University of Oxford, in the scarlet and black academic robes corresponding to his position. ...
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More recently, he has been 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. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution. ...
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References - ^ 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>
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