NPR Interviews Bram Cohen

Insight into the "young genius behind BitTorrent."

If there's one thing that NPR(National Public Radio) is known for it's interviewing people in the scientific and technological fields that otherwise get short shrift in the national media.

Funded by taxpayer dollars it goes to great lengths to inform the public on a wide variety of topics that are truly of importance. Unlike most so-called news outlets that are seemingly preoccupied with the latest Britney Spears drama NPR sticks solely with informative interviews and reports.

So it was refreshing to hear a recent interview conducted by NPR's Andrea Seabrook with Bram Cohen titled "The Young Genius Behind BitTorrent." For the unfamiliar Bram Cohen is the code programming wunderkind who developed the BitTorrent protocol in a just a few short weeks back in 2001.

The interview gives an interesting peek into the man, or genius, behind BitTorrent who professes to have "...learned to how to program at a very young age" and to just how incredibly intelligent he really is.

"I remember talking to a friend of mine in in I believe the the first grade and I had a Timex Sinclair at the time and he had a Commodore 64," he says. "So I was basically trying to explain the Church-Turing thesis to my 1st grade classmate and he had no ideas what I was talking about."

It's sadly something that even I would admit to having no idea what Cohen's talking about.

To hear the NPR interview with Bram Cohen in its entirety visit here.

[Via ZeroPaid]