Sam Aaron, Innovation Factory

Sam Aaron is a Ph.D. student at the School of Computing Science at Newcastle University in the U.K. He is currently finishing off his thesis on the subject of interest management.

He is both a Ruby and a Rails fanatic, and as such is actively involved in using and raising awareness of these wonderful technologies. He founded and organises the local Ruby and Rails User Group ? ncl.rb, which attracts more than 20 people every month.

He is using Rails to build a web-based decision support tool for Newcastle University's transport department and is constantly looking for excuses to include as many of the exciting new Rails advances into his projects as possible.