Erik Demaine (b. 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. His Ph.D., a seminal work in the field of computational origami was completed at the University of Waterloo. This work was awarded the NSERC Doctoral Prize, 2003, for the best Ph.D. thesis and research in Canada (one of four awards). More recently, he has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He joined the MIT faculty in 2001, at age 20. He is a member of the Theory of Computation group at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
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http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~edemaine/