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2003 MacArthur 'Genius Grant' Winners Announced

Posted by timothy on from the shoulda-thoughta-that dept.

ccnull writes "This year's list of 24 MacArthur Fellows has been released. Each winner of the so-called 'Genius Grant' receives $500,000, no strings attached. 2003's winners include a blacksmith, a biomedical engineer, a computation geometer, a biophysicist, a nurse, and a short story writer 'crafting witty, experimental prose.'"

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  1. Erik D. Demaine by Gurudev+Das · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Erik Demaine is also a recipient. He is the one who showed Tetris is an NP-complete problem.