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Joshua M. Pearce is the John M. Thompson Chair in Information Technology and Innovation at the Thompson Centre for Engineering Leadership & Innovation. He holds appointments at Ivey Business School, the top ranked business school in Canada and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Western University in Canada, a top 1% global university. At Western he runs the Free Appropriate Sustainability Technology (FAST) research group. His research concentrates on the use of open source appropriate technology (OSAT) to find collaborative solutions to problems in sustainability and to reduce poverty. His research spans areas of engineering of solar photovoltaic technology, open hardware, and distributed recycling and additive manufacturing (DRAM) using RepRap 3-D printing. He wrote the Open-Source Lab and Create, Share, and Save Money Using Open-Source Projects.
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Thanks Alethia -- No there are no age limits. Although I would say "non-traditional" students have a reputation for showing up the youth as if someone is willing to leave the workforce to go to grad school they are "in it to win it".
Great article - -this is a real problem and if we want OS 3D printable designs to flourish to the greatest extent it needs to be nailed down. Is Aleph considering taking the lead on building the "open ledger"?