Erik D. Demaine (b. February 28, 1981, in Halifax, Nova Scotia), in Canada, is a Canadian associate professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His childhood was spent travelling North America with his father, Martin Demaine, an artist and sculptor; he was home-schooled. Erik entered Dalhousie University in Canada at the age of 12, and completed his bachelor's degree when only 14.
His Ph.D. dissertation, a seminal ...
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Erik D. Demaine (b. February 28, 1981, in Halifax, Nova Scotia), in Canada, is a Canadian associate professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His childhood was spent travelling North America with his father, Martin Demaine, an artist and sculptor; he was home-schooled. Erik entered Dalhousie University in Canada at the age of 12, and completed his bachelor's degree when only 14.
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 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.
In 2003 he has 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.
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