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        A Conversation with Erik Demaine[->] 2008-09-02 15:58 jonniee

      Submitted by jonniee on Tuesday September 02, @03:58PM
      jonniee writes "Erik Demaine took his bachelor's at the age of 14 and at 20 became the youngest professor in the history of MIT. He received a MacArthur fellowship in 2003 which cited him 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". H In this interview, he talks about Computational Origami and the beauty found in mathematics. And Erik is one of this year's Katayanagi Prize winners."
      http://www.ddj.com/architect/210300014
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        Interviews: Ask Harald Welte, "VIA's open source representative" 2008-09-02 12:00

      Posted by Roblimo on Tuesday September 02, @12:00PM
      from the meet-a-free-software-renaissance-man dept.
      In this recent Slashdot post kernel hacker Harald Welte was characterized as "VIA's open source representative," but that is just one of many irons he has in the fire, as a glance at his Wikipedia bio will show. You can obviously ask Harald about many interesting things besides VIA's open source strategy — and before you ask about VIA, you ought to read the last few entries on his blog, at least one of which mentions VIA questions he can't answer. But VIA aside, there's plenty to ask Harald about. For example, he won an award from the FSF earlier this year for his work on gpl-violations.org. In any case, Harald is a powerful force for GNU/Linux and Free Software, and we appreciate him taking time out of his undoubtedly hectic schedule to answer your questions. (Usual Slashdot interview rules apply.)
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        Interview with Aza Raskin from Mozilla Labs[->] 2008-09-01 04:19 Anonymous Coward

      Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 01, @04:19AM
      Anonymous Coward writes "What's cooking in Mozilla's labs? We decided to make some questions to Aza Raskin, user interface guru, son of the great Jef Raskin, founder of Humanized Inc., music search engine Songza and above all Head of User Experience for Mozilla Labs."
      http://www.oneopensource.it/01/09/2008/interview-aza-raskin-head-of-user-experience-for-mozilla-labs/
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