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	Erik Demaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		February 28th, 1981, in Halifax, Nova Scotia), is an associate professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Erik_Demaine (168 words)

	Mass High Tech
		Demaine is from Halifax, Nova Scotia, where his father home-schooled him until he was 12, when he went to Dalhousie University in Halifax.
		Demaine is in his third year as an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science.
		Erik Demaine has presented more than 50 papers at international and national conferences, published dozens of articles in professional publications and written chapters for five books.
	www.masshightech.com /displayarticledetail.asp?Art_ID=64171 (635 words)

	PanDo : -origami-
		Demaine, an assistant professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the leading theoretician in the emerging field of origami mathematics, the formal study of what can be done with a folded sheet of paper.
		Erik Demaine received his doctorate at 20 and at the same age became the youngest professor ever at M.I.T. In 2003 he was granted a MacArthur "genius" fellowship.
		Demaine, who has just been appointed artist in residence in the computer science department, also runs the M.I.T. glass blowing workshop, where one of his students is his son.
	www.greatestjournal.com /go.bml?journal=pando&itemid=64270&dir=next (1757 words)

	22-year-old professor wins MacArthur grant - MIT News Office
		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.
		Demaine is interested in abstract geometry problems related to folding and bending that have practical applications in fields as diverse as manufacturing (sheet metal fabrication) and biology (protein folding).
		Demaine and his collaborators proved mathematically that it is possible to create any conceivable straight-sided shape by folding a piece of paper and making a single scissor cut.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2003/demaine-1008.html (724 words)

	CSBi :: Erik Demaine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Professor Demaine does his research in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he is a member of the Theory of Computation group.
		Demaine, E.D., Langerman, S., and O'Rourke, J. Aichholzer, O., Bremner, D., Demaine, E.D., Meijer, H., SacristÃ¡n, V., and Soss, M. (2003) "Long proteins with unique optimal foldings in the H-P model," Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications 25(1-2), 139-159.
		Aloupis, G., Demaine, E.D., Meijer, H., O'Rourke, J., Streinu, I., and Toussaint, G. (2002) ''Flat-state connectivity of chains with fixed acute angles,'' in Proceedings of the 14th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, 27-30.
	csbi.mit.edu /faculty/Members/ErikDemaine (263 words)

	77 Mass Ave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Erik Demaine and his father, Martin, seem oblivious to the heat, as Erik shapes the glowing, molten neck of what will become a glass vase.
		Erik, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, is having a practice session for the glassblowing class he is taking.
		While Erik was a doctoral student at the University of Waterloo, he met Robert Lang, one of the first people to study computational origami, the design of algorithms for solving paper-folding problems, with applications in everything from manufacturing to protein folding.
	www.techreview.com /articles/05/01/issue/massave0105.asp?p=2 (651 words)

	MIT’s Demaine Wins ‘Genius Grant’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Demaine is largely known for his creative work involving algorithms and computational geometry, or using folding algorithms to examine the results that can be generated.
		Demaine is the 14th MIT professor to receive the foundation’s grant, joining professors such as Eric S. Lander in biology, Noam A. Chomsky in linguistics, and most recently, professor Sendhil Mullainathan in economics.
		Demaine said that he is not too certain about how he will use the grant, which is free to be used as the recipient pleases.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V123/N46/46genius.46n.html (826 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : KnowHOW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Demaine received his doctorate at 20 and at the same age became the youngest professor ever at MIT.
		Aside from the mathematical value of the hyperbolic forms, Demaine has also taught courses in the school of architecture and imagines being able to computationally generate a scaffolding of these shapes over which a flexible skin could be draped.
		And since Demaine’s proof shows that you can get as many shapes as you want, “in theory you could produce the complete works of Shakespeare with a single cut,” said Robert Lang, a former laser physicist and professional folder who is collaborating with Erik on a major origami math project.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050221/asp/knowhow/story_4367349.asp (1333 words)

	PopSci's 2nd Annual Brilliant 10 - Popular Science
		Demaine and a handful of colleagues pursue the mathematics of folding with the bravado of skateboarders.
		When Erik was 7 and obsessed with Nintendo, his dad suggested he learn to create his own games; he was soon into computer programming.
		Demaine keeps countless origami problems percolating in his head, but his research ranges far beyond: He has co-authored more than 100 papers on such topics as data structures, bio-informatics and the mathematical obstacles to winning at Tetris.
	www.popsci.com /popsci/science/b6b80b4511b84010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd/5.html (537 words)

	uwstudent.org - UW PhD, Demaine, wins "genius award"
		Former University of Waterloo PhD student Erik Demaine was given the 2003 MacArthur Fellows Program award (called a "genius award") last week for his work in computational geometry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he is an assistant professor.
		Demaine, who is only 22, was one of 24 individual from a variety of fields to win the "no strings attached" $500,000.
		Demaine, who was only 14 when he started his Master’s of Math at UW, does indeed have a broad range of interests.
	uwstudent.org /article/2003/10/20/105650333 (365 words)

	Ivars Peterson's MathTrek - Five-Suit Decks, Traffic-Jam Puzzles, and Other Treats
		Thanks to Erik D. Demaine and Martin L. Demaine of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Anna Lubiw of the University of Waterloo, this statement now has the power of a theorem.
		Indeed, Demaine and his colleagues developed a systematic procedure that, for a given target shape, shows how the original sheet must be folded then cut to achieve the desired result.
		Erik Demaine, Marshall Bern of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, David Eppstein of the University of California, Irvine, and Barry Hayes of Placeware later worked out an alternative algorithm—based on disk packing—for solving the fold-and-cut problem.
	www.maa.org /mathland/mathtrek_12_02_02.html (585 words)

	A Graduate's Career Unfolds
		Demaine adopted the notion of "expansive motions," changes in one or more angles that not only preserve the condition of simplicity, but result in at least one pair of vertices (hinges) being further apart, while no other pairs get closer together.
		Erik also worked on data structures problems with Ian Munro and, even while working on his PhD, produced many joint papers with people such as Joseph Mitchell of Stoneybrook and Joseph O'Rourke of Smith College, both senior researchers in computational geometry.
		Demaine became a keen collaborator, according to Lubiw, as a direct result of the home schooling environment of his early youth.
	www.cs.uwaterloo.ca /features/news/Demaine.shtml (1146 words)

	Erik Demaine -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		His childhood was spent traveling North America with his father, Martin Demaine, an artist and sculptor; he was (additional info and facts about home-schooled) home-schooled.
		Erik entered (additional info and facts about Dalhousie University) Dalhousie University at the age of 12, and completed his (additional info and facts about Bachelor's degree) Bachelor's degree when only 14.
		This work was awarded the (additional info and facts about NSERC) NSERC Doctoral Prize, 2003, for the best Ph.D. thesis and research in Canada (one of four awards).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/er/erik_demaine.htm (164 words)

	CBS News \| Behind The 'Genius Grants' \| October 5, 2003 16:18:19
		One of the winners this year is 21-year-old Erik Demaine, the youngest professor ever at MIT.
		Demaine uses techniques like origami paper folding to discover scientific rules.
		Demaine is one of those MacArthur Fellows who has long been described as a "genius." But it's not a term the MacArthur folks like to use.
	uttm.com /stories/2003/10/04/sunday/main576556.shtml (648 words)

	2004 INFORMS Conference on OR/MS Practice :: Program
		Erik Demaine, winner of a 2003 MacArthur “genius” award, will share his experience with geometric optimization problems where operations research has played an important role.
		Erik Demaine received his PhD from University of Waterloo in 2001 and has since been an Assistant Professor in computer science at MIT.
		Demaine moves readily between the theoretical and the playful, with a keen eye to revealing the former in the latter.”
	www.informs.org /Conf/Practice04/HowtoMow.htm (341 words)

	The Forum of Young Global Leaders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Erik Demaine is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		Demaine has presented more than 50 papers at national and international conferences, published dozens of articles in professional periodicals, contributed chapters for five books and co-edited two other reference books.
		Erik Demaine gained a BSc from Dalhousie University and a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo.
	www.younggloballeaders.org /scripts/modules/Profiles/page5267.html (3562 words)

	Quinlan's Inside Magic - Magic News Updated Daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Dr. Erik Demaine is a former magician and from a family of curious magic-lovers.
		Demaine currently proves the existence of shapes long doubted to be possible such as a hyperbolic parabaloid.
		Demaine's work has been published in peer-review journals for his landmark studies featuring solutions to many "single-cut" problems and "carpenter's rule" mysteries.
	www.insidemagic.com /article_923.shtml (519 words)

	Wired 12.01: START
		PRODIGY: In 2001, at the age of 20, Demaine became the youngest faculty member in MIT history.
		He's a pioneer in the field of computational origami, but to avoid being typecast as "the folding guy," he says, he's also demonstrated the mathematical complexities of Tetris.
		Demaine devised what he calls a retroactive algorithm: It changes the past inside a database, undoing errors carried over from month to month.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/12.01/start.html?pg=4 (304 words)

	fellows
		Vibrating insoles are a few decades off for Demaine, who is 22 and has been a professor of computer science at MIT since 2001.
		Demaine has not yet decided what to do with his MacArthur grant (neither has Collins), although "one thing it'll help me do is travel," he says.
		At 22, Erik Demaine, a professor of computer science at MIT, has written papers with more than a hundred co-authors, for the most part in computational geometry and data structures.
	www.siam.org /siamnews/11-03/fellows.htm (731 words)

	New Scientist Premium- Computational origami - Interview
		Erik Demaine was the youngest ever professor at MIT - he specialises in the geometry of paper folding
		While some view origami strictly as an art form, Erik Demaine finds great theoretical challenges in the ancient Japanese practice.
		Welcome to the arcane realm of computational geometry, in which the 21-year-old Demaine is one of the youngest and most accomplished practitioners.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=mg17723785.200 (284 words)

	CITO: CITO Network: CITO Network News and Information: News@CITO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Erik Demaine, a former CITO-supported graduate student researcher, is pioneer in the field of computational origami.
		Demain did his graduate studies at the University of Waterloo, where he worked on a CITO supported project titled Data Structuring Techniques for Large Scale Text Indexing led by Dr. Ian Munro.
		Now an assistant professor in the electrical engineering and computer science department at MIT, Dr. Demaine was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, or “genius grant,” last fall for his unique work.
	www.cito.ca /network/n_january22_2004_demaine.html (162 words)

	Computational Geometry. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Aichholzer, D. Bremner, E.D. Demaine, H. Meijer, V. Sacristan, M. Soss, Long proteins with unique optimal foldings in the H-P model, Computational Geometry 25 (1-2) (2003) pp.
		Bern, E.D. Demaine, D. Eppstein, E. Kuo, A. Mantler, J. Snoeyink, Ununfoldable polyhedra with convex faces, Computational Geometry 24 (2) (2003) pp.
		Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Joseph S.B. Mitchell, Folding flat silhouettes and wrapping polyhedral packages: New results in computational origami, Computational Geometry 16 (1) (2000) pp.
	www.elsevier.com /cdweb/journals/09257721/viewer.htt?viewtype=authors&rangeselected=5 (681 words)

	NSERC - Dr. Erik Demaine
		Erik Demaine's life is unfolding in wondrous ways.
		Though he cautions that the Carpenter's Rule solution doesn't apply to 3-D movement, so the makers of robotic arms like the Canadarm need to pay careful attention to how the arm is constructed.
		The solution was achieved through collaboration with Dr. Robert Connelly, an expert in rigidity theory at Cornell University, and Dr. Günter Rote, an expert in geometric optimization at the Free University Berlin.
	www.nserc.ca /news/2003/p030328_b3.htm (498 words)

	Origami-Math Bibliography
		Demaine, Erik D.; Demaine, Martin L., and Lubiw, Anna, Folding and cutting paper, Revised Papers from the Japan Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry, edited by Jin Akiyama, Mikio Kano, and Masatsugu Urabe, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 1763, Tokyo, Japan, December 1998, pages 104-117.
		Demaine, Erik D.; Demaine, Martin L., and Lubiw, Anna, Folding and one straight cut suffice, Proceedings of the 10th Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (1999) 891-892.
		Demaine, Erik D., Folding and unfolding linkages, paper, and polyhedra, Revised Papers from the Japan Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry (JCDCG 2000), edited by Jin Akiyama, Mikio Kano, and Masatsugu Urabe, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 2098, Tokyo, Japan, November 2000, pages 113-124.
	www.merrimack.edu /~thull/omfiles/comporibib.html (575 words)

tag needed --> MIT EECS - 2004-05 Announcement</u> <i>(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)</i></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Erik</b> <b>Demaine</b> co-winner of Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Erik</b> D. <b>Demaine</b> was honored at the MIT faculty meeting on April 20 by being chosen as co-winner of the annual Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> The Edgerton Award was established in 1982 to honor junior faculty members "for distinction in research, teaching and service to the MIT community." Since this time the department has had the privilege of seeing several of its faculty honored with this award:</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.eecs.mit.edu /AY04-05/announcements/27.html</font> (75 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><body face="Arial"> <br> <table cellpadding=0> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <table > <tr><td> </td><td colspan=2><a href="http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/about/news/2003/macArthur">News: Erik Demaine wins MacArthur Fellowship | SCS | UW</a></td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Erik's</b> academic career began when he toppled <a href="/topics/Dalhousie-University" title="Dalhousie University" class=fl>Dalhousie University's</a> age barrier by being admitted at 12, and was admitted to the <a href="/topics/University-of-Waterloo" title="University of Waterloo" class=fl>University of Waterloo</a> at 14. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> After earning his <a href="/topics/Doctorate" title="Doctorate" class=fl>PhD</a>, <b>Demaine</b> became something of a Boston celebrity when he was hired at MIT at the age of 20, one of the youngest assistant <a href="/topics/Professor" title="Professor" class=fl>professors</a> to set foot on campus. </td></tr> <tr><td valign=top><img style="margin-top:4px;" src=/images/a.gif></td><td></td><td> <b>Erik</b> <b>Demaine</b>, now 22, will receive $500,000 US in "no strings attached" support over the next five years, the John D. and Catherine T.</td></tr> <tr><td></td><td colspan=2><font color=gray>www.cs.uwaterloo.ca /about/news/2003/macArthur</font> (254 words)</td></tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table><script language="JavaScript">  </script> <script language="JavaScript">  </script> <script language="JavaScript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <br> <p style="margin-left:30px;font-size:13px;"><b>Try your search on: <a href="http://www.qwika.com/find/Erik Demaine">Qwika</a> (all wikis)</b></p> <form action=http://www.factbites.com/search.php><table width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0><tr><td background="/images/f1.gif"><table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0 background="/images/b.gif"><tr><td><img src="/images/f2.gif" width=38 height=37 alt=" "/></td><td><table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0><tr><td><a href="/"><img src="/images/f3.gif" width=95 height=37 alt="Factbites" border=0 /></a><img src="/images/b.gif" width=15 height=1 alt=" "/></td><td valign=bottom><input type=text size=30 name=kp><img src="/images/b.gif" width=2 height=1 alt=" " /><input type=submit value=" Find » " class=b2></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><span class=f> <a href="http://www.factbites.com/about_us.php">About us</a> | <a href="http://www.factbites.com/why_use_us.php">Why use us?</a> | <a href="http://www.factbites.com/reviews.php">Reviews</a> | <a href="http://www.factbites.com/press.php">Press</a> | <a href="http://www.factbites.com/contact_us.php">Contact us</a> <br />Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with <a href=http://www.factbites.com/terms_and_conditions.php>terms</a>.</span></td></tr></table><img src="/images/b.gif" width=450 height=1 alt=" " /></td></tr></table></form> <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-317061-4"; urchinTracker(); </script> </body></html>