The creator of the linked electron microscope project was a PhD student at McGill (in Montreal) when he built it and (according to his LinkedIn) is currently a startup co-founder in Montreal. So... not sure where US geek culture fits in to this.
Thanks. I falsely assumed that the creator was in the US. Hopefully Canada does not have this strange culture of looking down upon geeks as in the US (so much so that Paul Graham wrote the essay on revenge of nerds, which I couldn't even understand where his emotion came or why he wrote the essay until I came to the US years later).
