In the history of technology, Christos Papadimitriou is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Christos Papadimitriou as Greek computer scientist (b. 1949).
Christos Papadimitriou was born at Athens in 1949. His recorded nationality is Greece. He was educated at Princeton University and National Technical University of Athens.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
He worked as writer, mathematician and computer scientist.
His affiliations include Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley.
His principal work is A simple algorithm for finding frequent elements in streams and bags. Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.
His recorded fields of work are computer science.
His work was formally recognised with the Knuth Prize, Gödel Prize and EATCS award.
That the work was done from Greece matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Christos Papadimitriou is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Notable work: A simple algorithm for finding frequent elements in streams and bags
- Affiliated with Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of California, Berkeley
- Educated at Princeton University and National Technical University of Athens
- Worked as writer, mathematician and computer scientist
