I just finished my new interview with Daniel Parrott, author of TYCHO TRACKER.
Here is short bait:
As a 10-year-old, he became interested in programming and wondered if he could create his own program. Two years later, he received his first telescope, which he later replaced by more powerful ones. He enjoyed visual observations and was stunned by his own astrophotographs. As he wanted to do computer science, he studied programming and today he creates algorithms used in air traffic. He showed that initially crazy idea how to track asteroids can work and so proved that discovery of asteroids by amateurs is not over yet. The author of an exceptional software for NEO detection...
http://www.skaw.sk/interview-with-daniel-parrott.html