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Jamie Smith is a veteran bike racer and bike race announcer. He has been a bike racer since 1983, working his way up through the ranks of amateur cycling, and a bike race announcer since 1985, traveling with some of the world’s greatest cyclists. He is the author of Roadie: The Misunderstood World of a Bike Racer with illustrator Jef Mallett.

Chris Horner is one of cycling’s most popular and observant riders, blessed with a rare ability to read a race in progress and describe it fluently afterward. He began his long pro career in the U.S. in 1995 with PAA-NutraFig; moved to Europe for three years with Française des Jeux; and then returned to America to guide the Mercury, Prime Alliance, Saturn, and Webcor teams, withMIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science PhD candidate Aisha Walcott SM '04 presented a novel program which she helped found in 2003 to the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS, held in Boston Feb. 14-18.

Walcott's presentation was based on a paper titled "The Academy of Courageous Engineers: A Model for Supporting Minority Students in the Completion of Science and Engineering Degrees." She was joined by fellow MIT graduate students and ACME alumni who gave a demonstration of some of the features of the ACME program.

As described in the Feb. 16, 2008 MIT News Office article, the ACME framework includes web technology, weekly face-to-face meetings and a research seminar series. It also features a forum for addressing inherent aspects of the graduate student