Biography
Erik Demaine is a Professor in computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Demaine's research interests range throughout algorithms, from data structures for improving web searches to the geometry of understanding how proteins fold to the computational difficulty of playing games. He received a MacArthur Fellowship as a "computational geometer tackling and solving difficult problems related to folding and bending--moving readily between the theoretical and the playful, with a keen eye to revealing the former in the latter". He appears in the recent origami documentary Between the Folds, cowrote a book about the theory of folding (Geometric Folding Algorithms), and a book about the computational complexity of games (Games, Puzzles, and Computation). His interests span the connections between mathematics and art, particularly sculpture and performance, including curved origami sculptures in the permanent collection of Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York.
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PublicationsSee http://erikdemaine.org/papers/
Awards- Mathematical Association of America: Polya Lecturer (2011)
- Smithsonian: Pieces in permanent collection (2011)
- Mathematical Association of America: Polya Lecturer (2010)
- Carnegie Mellon University and Tokyo University of Technology: Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize (2008)
- Francqui Foundation: International Francqui Chair (2007)
- Dalhousie University: Honorary Doctor of Laws (2007)
- Sloan Foundation: Research Fellowship (2006)
- MIT: Edgerton Award (2005)
- Popular Science: Brilliant 10 (2004)
- MIT EECS: Spira Teaching Award (2004)
- NSF: Career Award (2004)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC): NSERC Doctoral Prize (2003)
- MacArthur Foundation: MacArthur Fellows Program (2003)
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