Co-founder and CTO David Holz is responsible for the initial mathematics that make this all possible.

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Leap Motion was founded in 2010 by Michael Buckwald and David Holz.

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Holz tossed in a PhD program at UNC Chapel Hill, following a stint researching fluid mechanics for NASA, to make the Leap a reality.

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