The Most Famous
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS from Greece
This page contains a list of the greatest Greek Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 201 Computer Scientists, 3 of which were born in Greece. This makes Greece the birth place of the 12th most number of Computer Scientists behind India and Netherlands.
Top 3
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Greek Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Greek Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Joseph Sifakis (1946 - )
With an HPI of 48.53, Joseph Sifakis is the most famous Greek Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 22 different languages on wikipedia.
Joseph Sifakis (Greek: Ιωσήφ Σηφάκης) is a Greek-French computer scientist. He received the 2007 Turing Award, along with Edmund M. Clarke and E. Allen Emerson, for his work on model checking.
2. Michael Dertouzos (1936 - 2001)
With an HPI of 45.84, Michael Dertouzos is the 2nd most famous Greek Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Michael Leonidas Dertouzos (Greek: Μιχαήλ Λεωνίδας Δερτούζος; November 5, 1936 – August 27, 2001) was a professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) from 1974 to 2001. Dertouzos predicted the expansion of computer use very early, and was one of the pioneers in many areas of technology. These included his contributions to the Web particularly through his visionary approach to ubiquitous computing.
3. Christos Papadimitriou (1949 - )
With an HPI of 42.82, Christos Papadimitriou is the 3rd most famous Greek Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages.
Christos Charilaos Papadimitriou (Greek: Χρήστος Χαρίλαος "Χρίστος" Παπαδημητρίου; born August 16, 1949) is a Greek theoretical computer scientist and the Donovan Family Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University.
Pantheon has 3 people classified as computer scientists born between 1936 and 1949. Of these 3, 2 (66.67%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living computer scientists include Joseph Sifakis and Christos Papadimitriou. The most famous deceased computer scientists include Michael Dertouzos.
