Michael Bletsas
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Michail Bletsas (born March 19, 1967) is a Greek research scientist and the Director of Computing at the MIT Media Lab.
Early life
Bletsas was born in Chania, Crete. He studied at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and received a master's degree in computer engineering from Boston University.[1]
Career
Before joining the Media Lab, Bletsas was a Systems Engineer at Aware Inc.[1] He is one of the founders of the Greek mobile advertising and marketing company Velti S.A.[1] and he was also one of the leaders in an effort to provide wireless networking to the island of Patmos, Greece.[2][3]
Since June 23, 2010, Bletsas is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA (Athens, Greece).[4]
OLPC
Michail Bletsas is one of the designers of OLPC's XO laptop.[5] [6] He was one of the principals of the OLPC team [7] where he made various contributions, including the design and implementation of the first embedded layer-2 wifi mesh stack.[8] From February 2006 to January 2009, he was OLPC's Chief Connectivity Officer and VP Advanced Technology[9] and he was member of the group which received the Community category award of the 2007 Index: Award, for the design of the OLPC XO-1 laptop computer.[10][11]
Conferences
He was a keynote speaker at the 4th and 5th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, 2007[12] and 2008[13] respectively, at the 8th International Conference on Computer Based Learning in Science in Heraklion, Crete, 2007,[14] at Disruptions 2007 in Athens, Greece,[15] and at the 4th Balkan Conference in Informatics in Thessaloniki, Greece, 2009.[16]
References
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- ^ a b c Biography as a keynote speaker at the Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, 2007, retrieved 2010-06-23.
- ^ Nortel Wireless Mesh Boosts Broadband for Patmos Islanders Script error: No such module "webarchive"., Nortel, July 23, 2008.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Patmos, un'isola tutta wireless", Computer World Italia, July 25, 2008, archived from the original on December 22, 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Stocks". investing.businessweek.com. Archived from the original on October 3, 2012. Retrieved July 11, 2010.
- ^ Laptop computer Patent
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Heater, Brian (January 18, 2008), "OLPC Exec Addresses Project's Shortcomings", PC Magazine.
- ^ Michail Bletsas, Chief Connectivity Officer, One Laptop Per Child
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- ^ OLPC's Interview: OLPC's Michail Bletsas Script error: No such module "webarchive".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."World's Largest Design Award, Top 6 Winners Announced", Digital Journal, August 25, 2007.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Index:Award > 2007 > WINNERS 2007 > OLPC XO". Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
- ^ CCNC 2007
- ^ CCNC 2008 keynote speakers
- ^ CBLIS 2007 program Script error: No such module "webarchive"., retrieved 2010-06-24.
- ^ Meet the speakers, Disruptions 2007, retrieved 2010-06-24.
- ^ Call for participation, BCI 2009, retrieved 2010-06-24.
External links
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- MIT Media Lab "http://web.media.mit.edu/~mbletsas/"
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