Michael Bletsas
| Michail Bletsas | |
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| Born | 1967 Chania |
| Occupation | Academic and Computer Scientist |
Michail Bletsas (born March 19, 1967, in Chania, Crete) is a research scientist and the Director of Computing at the MIT Media Lab.
Education and career
Bletsas studied at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and received a masters degree in computer engineering from Boston University.[1] Before joining the Media Lab, he 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Biography as a keynote speaker at the Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, 2007, retrieved 2010-06-23.
- ↑ Nortel Wireless Mesh Boosts Broadband for Patmos Islanders, Nortel, July 23, 2008.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found..
- ↑ [1] retrieved July 11, 2010
- ↑ Laptop computer Patent
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found..
- ↑ Michail Bletsas, Chief Connectivity Officer, One Laptop Per Child
- ↑ US application 315042
- ↑ OLPC's Interview: OLPC's Michail Bletsas
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found..
- ↑ Index:Award > 2007 > WINNERS 2007 > OLPC XO
- ↑ CCNC 2007
- ↑ CCNC 2008 keynote speakers
- ↑ CBLIS 2007 program, 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/"
