Education
Spinellis holds an Master of Engineering degree in Software Engineering and a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science both from Imperial College London.
Spinellis holds an Master of Engineering degree in Software Engineering and a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science both from Imperial College London.
He lives in Athens, Greece. His Erdős number is 4. He is also a committer in the FreeBSD project, and author of a number of popular free or open-source systems: the UMLGraph declarative UML diagram generator, the bib2xhtml BibTeX to XHTML converter, the outwit Microsoft Windows data with command line programs integration tool suite, the CScout source code analyzer and refactoring browser, and the socketpipe fast IPC plumbing utility.
In 2008, together with a collaborator, Spinellis claimed that "red links" (a Wikipedia slang for wikilinks that lead to non-existing pages) is what drives Wikipedia growth.
On the 5th of November 2009, he was appointed the General Secretary of Information Systems at the Greek Ministry of Finance. In October 2011 he resigned citing personal reasons.
He is a Professor at the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business, and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Software editorial board, contributing the Tools of the Trade column.