Kaleigh Clary, a computer science graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, drove down to offer a day of free work for the American Museum of Natural History.
Why?
“Dinosaurs, man,” Ms. Clary said.
Computer programmers, it appears, like dinosaurs, a lot.She was one of almost 150 people who gathered for the museum’s “Hack the Dinos” challenge in November to create software tools to help dinosaur scientists.
Source: ‘Hack the Dinos’ Helps Paleontologists – The New York Times