2011 People's Choice Award: And the Winner is...

Thanks to everyone who voted for a People's Choice Award winner last week! Looking at the votes took some time due to a few folks who appear to have been dedicated enough to set up vote-bots. We appreciate your enthusiasm, but our authors are champs on their own, no additional help needed. But now that the votes are all in, we're pleased to announce that this year's winner is David Doria, who wrote several stories for our Education channel last year.

David Doria is working toward his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, specifically in the field of computer vision and image processing. His research deals with 3D data analysis, particularly from LiDAR scanners...