2010

Roger Meike fell in love early on with the “whizzy things” computers do. At The Miami Valley School, he took classes at a local university and created an independent immersion to teach the advanced computer class under the supervision of math teacher Mario Ferraro.

From MVS, Meike studied Cognitive Science, a combination of Computer Science, Psychology, and Philosophy at the University of Rochester.

Meike began his career with Martin Marietta Denver Aerospace where he applied artificial intelligence techniques to network management for the International Space Station. Since then, he has been a founder or early employee in several startups, including WaveFrame, Studio Magic, Avio Digital, and Pixlabs, and has been a significant contributor in several research environments (University of Rochester Computer Science Department, Martin Marietta Denver AerospaceAI group, Interval Research).

In 2006 Meiker received the Computerworld Horizon Award, transforming the tech-world by leading the “Sun Small Programmable Object Technology” (Sun SPOT) project. Meike and his project exemplify global compassion citizenship, as applications for the Sun SPOT range from monitoring water quality in Malawi, Africa, where cholera outbreaks have been a problem, to collecting data about the Amazon rainforest with sensors at both ground level and high up in the canopy.