Jacob Hurwitz

I am an undergraduate student enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Currently a sophomore, I am pursuing a double major in mathematics and computer science. For further details, consult my resume.

Recent news:

• I am involved in many student groups at MIT, including ESP, Mystery Hunt, Hillel, ESG, and a Jazz Combo.
• I was the first MIT student to obtain an official Pirate Certificate, in the fall of 2011. Several months later, I was featured in several media articles about the Pirate Certificate.
• I spent IAP 2012 working on the Maslab robotics competition. Our team won the tournament, which you can now watch online.

Papers:

• A. Das Sarma, J. Hurwitz, D. Tolnay, and S. Yu. Making Sense of the 2010 Census, in SIAM Undergraduate Research Online. Presented at Mu Alpha Theta 2010. ^{[more information]}
• J. Hurwitz. Decycling Densities of Tessellations. Presented at the 2009 Research Science Institute, the 2009 Yau High School Math Awards, and the 2010 DC Junior Science and Humanities Symposium.

Works in progress:

• At the 2011 Facebook Hackathon at MIT, I created QR Attend with two other MIT students. Then at the Facebook Camp Hackathon Finals, I worked on 2tobrowse, as covered by TechCrunch. Both sites are under construction, but more functionality may be on the way.
• In my 18.701 and 8.022 ESG classes, I took notes during class in LaTeX. Some of my 8.022 notes are now posted, and I plan to post the rest of my 8.022 notes along with my 18.701 notes at some point in the future, once I have time to edit for correctness.