Erik Demaine

Erik Demaine

Infobox Scientist
name=Erik D. Demaine


caption=Erik Demaine (left), Martin Demaine (center), and Bill Spight (right) watch John Horton Conway demonstrate a card trick (June 2005).
birth_date = birth date and age|1981|2|28
birth_place = Halifax, Nova Scotia
nationality =
residence =
alma_mater = Dalhousie University
University of Waterloo
work_institution = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
spouse =
prizes=
website=

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

Early life

His childhood was spent travelling North America with his father, Martin Demaine, an artist and sculptor; he was home-schooled. [cite news|url=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|title=Road Scholar Finds Home at MIT|last=Barry|first=Ellen|publisher=Boston Globe|date=2002-02-17|accessdate=2008-04-15] Erik entered Dalhousie University at the age of 12, and completed his bachelor's degree when only 14.cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/15/science/15origami.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5090&en=7c6938eb4b440672&ex=1266210000&partner=rssuserland|title=Origami as the Shape of Things to Come|last=WERTHEIM|first=Margaret|publisher=The New York Times|date=2005-02-15|accessdate=2008-04-15] [cite news|url=http://moreresults.factiva.com/results/index/index.aspx?ref=IRTI000020050819e18j00023|title= Commercial origami starts to take shape|last=O'Brien|first=Danny|publisher=Irish Times|date=2005-08-19|accessdate=2008-04-15]

Professional Accomplishments

His Ph.D. dissertation, a seminal work in the field of computational origami, was completed at the University of Waterloo. [cite web|accessdate=2008-04-15|url=http://newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca/news.php?id=2852|title= National honour for Demaine|publisher=University of Waterloo|date=2003-03-31] 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.Citation
last1 = Demaine
first1 = Erik
last2 = O'Rourke
first2 = Joseph
authorlink2 = Joseph O'Rourke (professor)
title = Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra
publisher = Cambridge University Press
date = July 2007
location =
pages = Part II
url = http://www.gfalop.org
doi =
id =
isbn = 978-0-521-85757-4]

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. [cite journal|last=Beasley|first=Sandra|title=Knowing when to fold|journal=American Scholar|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-25437873_ITM|date=2006-09-22]

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

References

External links

* [http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~edemaine/ Erik Demaine]
*MathGenealogy|id=65084
* [http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2003/macarthur.html Biography in MIT News]


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