The money is bad, the hours are horrible and you may become very unpopular. But you get to nail the bad guy - and use your geek skills. Thats Patrick Balls life as deputy director of the Science and Human Rights Program at the AAAS. He has spent 12 years designing software that turns information on human rights abuses into databases that can be used worldwide. One of his biggest successes was in the Slobodan Milosevic trial. But there has been a personal price to pay...
http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns23881
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