Quoted in the State News

by | Friday, March 22, 2013

A couple of weeks ago I was interviewed by Simon Shuster, journalist at the State News. A couple of quotes made it into the article. Here, for the record, is the link: Wired up, ready to go.

Interestingly enough, this was the second story that Simon has written about me. Back in January 2012 he had written a story for his high school newspaper, which had mentioned my work as well. I had blogged about it here.

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