Christos Papadimitriou

Christos Papadimitriou was born in Athens in 1949. After completing his studies at the Polytechnic, he went to America, where since 1976 he has been teaching Computer Science at Harvard University (where he was a tutor to Bill Gates), (MIT), Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, where he is now the C Lester Hogan Professor of Computer Science. In addition to his PhD (Princeton, 1976), he was awarded an honorary doctorate by ETH Zurich in 1997. He is regarded internationally as a leading researcher in Computer Science, has published hundreds of research papers, and his books (Computational Theory, Combinatorial Optimisation, Computational Complexity, etc.) have been translated into many languages. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering of the USA. He lives with his family in California and Greece.