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« Time for retirement? | Main | Bobby Brown and Brainiac at 40 » Tuesday, October 9, 2007Erik Demaine vs. Caveman NickAs I mentioned last week, when I was blogging from the Ideas Boston 2007 conference, MIT wunderkind Erik Demaine is not only brilliant -- he's a MacArthur-winning young computer science professor who researches data structures for improving web searches, the geometry of understanding how proteins fold, and the computational difficulty of playing games -- but he also seems funny and cool. So I hope he won't take this the wrong way:   It's uncanny! Posted by Joshua Glenn at 11:46 PM
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