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Andrew Lewis is a computer scientist by training and an IT consultant, Web Designer and freelance journalist by trade. He has lectured to postgraduate and professional groups on subjects as diverse as optimization, hardware hacking and 3D scanning.He is a keen advocate of Open Source software, hardware and science. He is a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH and ACM SIGACT groups. His interests lie in 3D scanning, Algorithmics, Python and hardware hacking.
