Greg Papadopoulos

Greg Papadopoulos is the current Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Sun Microsystems. Image File history File links Img-gp. ... A vice president is an officer in government or business who is next in rank below a president. ... Chief Technical Officer or Chief Technology Officer, usually seen as CTO, is a business executive position whose holder is focused on technical issues in a company. ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ...

Papadopoulos achieved a B.A. in systems science from the University of California, San Diego, and was the recipient of both M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B., from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... Systems science is the science of complex systems. ... The University of California, San Diego (popularly known as UCSD) is a public, coeducational university located in La Jolla, California. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate or graduate course of one to three years in duration. ... Doctor of Philosophy, or Ph. ... This article treats electronics engineering as a subfield of electrical engineering, though this is not typical use in some areas. ... Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a private research university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is one of the worlds leading research institutions in science and technology. ...

Prior to his career at Sun, Papadopoulos worked as a professor at MIT, and held positions at Hewlett-Packard and Honeywell. He is also credited with founding three companies: PictureTel, Ergo, and Exa Corp. He had been working at Thinking Machines before coming to Sun in 1994. Before reaching his current position as Executive Vice President and CTO, Papadopoulos served as vice president of technology and advanced development, among other roles. The Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), commonly known as HP, is a very large, global company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. ... Honeywell (NYSE: HON) is a major American multinational corporation that produces electronic control systems and automation equipment. ... Thinking Machines Corporation was a supercomputer manufacturer founded in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1982 by W. Daniel Hillis and Sheryl Handler to turn Hilliss doctoral work at MIT on massively parallel computing architectures into a commercial product called the Connection Machine. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated like the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ...

External links

• Sun Microsystems's official Greg Papadopoulos bio
• Greg Papadopoulos' (corporate) blog