In a 1999 paper, Erik Demaine — now an MIT
professor of electrical engineering and
computer science, but then an 18 - year -
old PhD student at the University
of Waterloo, in Canada — described an algorithm that could determine how to fold a piece
of paper into any conceivable 3 - D shape.
As Herzog muses on the depressing ugliness
of institutional hallways in an academic building on campus, we see a trim
older gentleman,
computer science professor Leonard Kleinrock, leading the camera through a doorway that leads to the room where the Internet was born in 1969.