Not your typical white paper
Edward Moyer Senior Editor
Edward Moyer is a senior editor at CNET and a many-year veteran of the writing and editing world. He enjoys taking sentences apart and putting them back together. He also likes making them from scratch. ¶ For nearly a quarter of a century, he's edited and written stories about various aspects of the technology world, from the US National Security Agency's controversial spying techniques to historic NASA space missions to 3D-printed works of fine art. Before that, he wrote about movies, musicians, artists and subcultures.
Credentials
- Ed was a member of the CNET crew that won a National Magazine Award from the American Society of Magazine Editors for general excellence online. He's also edited pieces that've nabbed prizes from the Society of Professional Journalists and others.
Sure, plenty of them are dull, but then you've probably never seen white papers like these. The late Dr. David Huffman, who developed a coding method used to help compress MP3 and JPEG files, was also a fan of origami--and we're not talking little cranes for the Christmas tree.
Huffman, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was a master of computational origami, which uses mathematical equations to create seemingly impossible structures from single sheets of paper--no cuts, no glue, lots of breathtaking beauty. You can admire a couple of his spiraling creations and read more about the man and his hobby
here.