Posted: Thursday 12 June 2008
Computing Whizz Kid
Rory Forbes, 18, a former pupil of Morrison's Academy, has been employed by Google to work on the Open Source software project, OpenNMS.
The project is focused on "Web Interface Improvements" and is part of the ‘Google Summer of Code' program which hires university students from around the world to code for the summer. 1000 students from 91 countries are involved in the program this year, and all participants are supported by an assigned mentor. Rory's mentor is Rob Moore who is located in Austin, Texas.