Christos Papadimitriou

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STUDENTS FROM E1 CLASS BRIEFLY PRESENT THE GREEK SCIENTIST

CHRISTOS PAPADIMITRIOU

Ralleia Experimental Primary Schools Class E1 School Year: 2017-18


WHO IS HE? Christos Papadimitriou was born on the 16 th of August 1949. He is a Greek theoretical computer scientist and C. Lester Hogan Professor

of

EECS

Computer

Science

Division University of California at - EECS Department - Berkeley


WHO IS HE? Before joining Berkeley in 1996, he taught at Harvard, MIT, NTU Athens, Stanford, and UCSD. Â


STUDIES Christos Papadimitriou studied at the National Technical University of Athens, where in 1972 he received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He continued to study at Princeton University, where he received his MS in Electrical Engineering in 1974 and his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1976.


CHRISTOS PAPADIMITRIOU 

The theory of algorithms and complexity, and its applications to databases, optimization, AI, the Internet, game theory, and evolution.


CHRISTOS PAPADIMITRIOU He has written five textbooks and many articles on algorithms and complexity, and their applications to optimization, databases, control, AI, robotics, economics, game theory, the Internet, evolution, and brain science.  He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the US, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering.  He has also written three novels: “Turing ,” “Logicomix” (with Apostolos Doxiadis) and “Independence” (in Greek). 


PHOTOS


SOURCES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christos_Papadimitriou http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~christos / https://ic.epfl.ch/page-144063-en.html


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