As Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Research
and Development at Sun, Greg Papadopoulos directs the company's
approximate $2B in R&D portfolio with an eye toward innovation,
simplicity, and eco-responsibility. With more than 20 years experience
in the technology industry, Papadopoulos is responsible for managing
Sun's technology decisions and architecture. His team leads Sun Labs,
the DARPA High Performance Computing S...
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As Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Research
and Development at Sun, Greg Papadopoulos directs the company's
approximate $2B in R&D portfolio with an eye toward innovation,
simplicity, and eco-responsibility. With more than 20 years experience
in the technology industry, Papadopoulos is responsible for managing
Sun's technology decisions and architecture. His team leads Sun Labs,
the DARPA High Performance Computing Systems program, global
engineering architecture and advanced development programs.
Passionate about technology and its possibilities, Papadopoulos
supports open development models that stimulate communication,
creativity and innovation, which he promotes through his blog, Greg
Matter, as well as numerous speaking engagements.
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| During his tenure with Sun, Papadopoulos
has held several positions, including vice president of technology and
advanced development for the company's systems business, chief
scientist for server systems engineering, and chief scientist for
enterprise servers and storage. |
Before joining Sun in 1994, Papadopoulos
was senior architect and director of product strategy for Thinking
Machines, where he led the design of the CM6 massively parallel
supercomputer.
Papadopoulos was an associate professor of electrical engineering
and computer science at MIT, where he conducted research in scalable
systems, multi threaded/data flow processor architecture, functional
and declarative languages, and fault-tolerant computing. Papadopoulos
also worked as a development engineer at Hewlett-Packard and Honeywell,
where he designed flight-control systems for Boeing jetliners. He
co-founded three companies: PictureTel (video conferencing), Ergo
(high-end PCs) and Exa Corporation (computational fluid dynamics).
Papadopoulos participates in several associations, including serving
as chairman of the board for the Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence (SETI), as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Anita
Borg Institute for Women and Technology, and as a member of the
President's Board on Science and Innovation at the University of
California. Greg acts as a technical advisor for BP and Alien
Technologies.
He holds a bachelor's degree in systems science from the University
of California at San Diego, as well as master's and doctoral degrees in
electrical engineering and computer science from MIT.
