Mindspark co-founder and president Gray Benoist (L rear) works at the MindSpark offices in Santa Monica, California. The firm for the past three years has employed analysts with autism to test software for companies, seeking out people on the high-functioning end of the autism spectrum with behaviors that, while at odds with social norms, are advantages in working with computer technology. About one percent of the world's population has autism spectrum disorder, according to the US-based Autism Society, with those at the high end of the spectrum otherwise intelligent people who lack social or communication skills. / AFP PHOTO / Frederic J. BROWNFREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images
