Liam Norris is an American physicist, mathematician, software designer, developer, explorer, thinker and poet.He began his career in 2010 while pursuing post grad studies in mathematics in Budapest, Hungary. During that period he taught himself the latest software development tools and languages. His ongoing work and musings are viewableat CODEXLIAM.
He was born on April 27, 1988, in Boston, Massachusetts to Julie Sullivan Jones an architect and William Norris a developer, artist. . His lineage goes back to Cotton Mather, a minister who petitioned King George in 1601 for the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, a relative who co-founded Yale, and Ethan Allen the founder of Vermont.
He was raised in artistic creative households and grew up wandering the polyglot culture of neighborhoods in Boston. One favorite game was to be taken somewhere in the city and forced to find his way home using only city landmarks. He is renowned for riding his bike to school every day of the year including thru snowstorms.
His early years were invested in creative writing, music (viola, piano, guitar), art, sports and Boy Scouts. At the ages of 14 and 15 he travelled to Honduras and built housing for poor villagers. At 17, he constructed trails at Glacier National Park in Montana.
Liam began his college studies at the age of 16 at Boston University and focused on Chinese, Latin, math and sciences. At 18 years of age, he went west to the University of Redlands in California as a Presidential Scholar. He was mentored along with one other fellow student, Emily Thalberg, by a small group of PHD's.
Alan Shugart, a fellow alum and physicist from the University of Redlands is noted for leading the team at IBM that developed the floppy disk, founding Shugart and then Seagate, the largest manufacturer of disk drive products.
He received degrees from the University of Redlands, and the Johnson Center in 2010.
He did post grad work in mathematics in Budapest in affiliation with St. Olafs College.
Post graduation, he followed a KANT motif ie; -all knowledge comes from experience-, and lived a Kerouac -on the road-existence, travelling to Nepal, Turkey, Berlin, Austria, the Adriatic States, and central europe. It was in Berlin that he lived with gypsies and farmed.
He has done internships at MIT on robotic fish, and Boston College in nano technologies.
He has a passion for and has studied multiple languages, including Chinese, Spanish, Deutsch, Hungarian and English.
He is the founder of -JAMATHEMA-, a sophisticated mathematics oriented social project whose mission is to help Jamaica. Its motto is-
MINDS + MATH = PROGRESS.
