Greg Papadopoulos

Who is Greg Papadopoulos?

As Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Research

and Development at Sun, Greg Papadopoulos directs the company's

approximate $2B in RD 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.

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.