Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
architect chairman engineer executive
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is the creator and lead proponent for Redshift, a theory on whether technology markets are over or under-served by Moore"s Law. At some time he held positions at Hewlett-Packard and Honeywell. While a graduate student, he worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology spinoff PictureTel in its early days.
His dissertation was on a dataflow architecture microprocessor, under advisor Professor Arvind.
Along with David East. Culler, he developed a simplified approach to dataflow execution in a project named Monsoon. Papadopoulos became assistant professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988 and associate professor in May 1993, where he helped start Ergo Computing in 1988, and Exa Corporation in 1991.
He was chief architect at Thinking Machines Corporation while on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty starting in 1992. His research applied massively parallel techniques to high-performance computing.
He joined Sun Microsystems in September 1994.
After serving as chief scientist for the server division, in December 1995 he became chief technical officer ( Chief Technology Officer) of SMCC (Sun"s hardware division), and Chief Technology Officer of the entire company in April 1998. He left Sun in February 2010. Papadopoulos co-authored (with David Douglas and John Boutelle) the book on Citizen Engineer: A Handbook for Socially Responsible Engineering, published in 2009.
At the time he lived in Los Gatos, California.
In 2010 Papadopoulos joined venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (National Education Association) as an executive in residence and the Computer History Museum as a director In April, 2011, Papadopoulos became a partner at National Education Association. At some time he was chairman of the board of trustees for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute.
Papadopoulos achieved a Bachelor of Arts in systems science from the University of California, San Diego in 1979, and was the recipient of both S.M. and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in 1983 and 1988 respectively.
