Greg Papadopoulos

With more than 20 years experience in the technology industry, Greg Papadopoulos is responsible for managing Sun's technology direction and architecture, standards, the Science Office, global engineering architecture, and associated advanced development programs. He also provides leadership and consistency for hardware and software architectures across Sun.

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 CM5 massively parallel supercomputer.

He also was an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at M.I.T., where he conducted research in scalable systems, multithreaded/dataflow 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 Corp. (computational fluid dynamics).

Papadopoulos is Chairman of the Board for the Board of Trustees of SETI, on the Board of Trustees, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, CASC - California Air and Space Center, and Technology Advisory Council for British Petroleum. He holds a B.A. in systems science from the University of California at San Diego, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from M.I.T.