Diomidis Spinellis | |
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Διομήδης Σπινέλλης | |
 Spinellis talking about theAntikythera mechanism | |
| Born | Diomidis D. Spinellis (1967-02-02)2 February 1967 (age 58) Athens, Greece |
| Education | Imperial College London (PhD) |
| Known for | Code reading |
| Awards | International Obfuscated C Code Contest (1988, 1990, 1991, 1995) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Software engineering IT security[1] |
| Institutions | Athens University of Economics and Business Delft University of Technology[2] |
| Thesis | Programming paradigms as object classes : a structuring mechanism for multiparadigm programming (1994) |
| Doctoral advisor | Susan Eisenbach Sophia Drossopoulou[3] |
| Website | www |
Diomidis D. Spinellis (Greek:Διομήδης Δ. Σπινέλλης; 2 February 1967) is a Greekcomputer science academic and author of the booksCode Reading,Code Quality,Beautiful Architecture (co-author) andEffective Debugging.[4][1][2]
Spinellis holds aMaster of Engineering degree inSoftware Engineering and aPh.D. inComputer Science both fromImperial College London.[5] His PhD was supervised bySusan Eisenbach andSophia Drossopoulou.[3]
He is aprofessor at the Department of Management Science and Technology at theAthens University of Economics and Business, and a member of theIEEE Software editorial board, contributing the Tools of the Trade[6] column. Since 2014, he is alsoeditor-in-chief ofIEEE Software. Spinellis is a four-time winner of theInternational Obfuscated C Code Contest in 1988, 1990, 1991 and 1995.[7]
He is also a committer in theFreeBSD project, and author of a number of popular free oropen-source systems: the UMLGraph[8] declarativeUML diagram generator, the bib2xhtml[9]BibTeX toXHTML converter, the outwit[10]Microsoft Windows data withcommand line programs integration tool suite, the CScout[11] source code analyzer andrefactoring browser,[11] the socketpipe[12] fastinter-process communication plumbing utility and directed graph shell[13] thedirected graph Unix shell forbig data andstream processing pipelines.[14]
In 2008, together with a collaborator, Spinellis claimed that "red links" (aWikipedia slang forwikilinks that lead to non-existing pages) is what drives Wikipedia growth.[15]
On 5 November 2009 he was appointed the General Secretary of Information Systems at theGreek Ministry of Finance.[16] In October 2011, he resigned citing personal reasons.[17][18]
On 20 March 2015 he was elected President of Open Technologies Alliance (GFOSS).[19] GFOSS is a non-profit organization founded in 2008, 36 Universities and Research Centers are shareholders of GFOSS. The main goal of GFOSS is to promote Openness through the use and the development of Open Standards and Open Technologies in Education, Public Administration and Business in Greece. Spinellis usesopen-source software to teach software engineering to his students.[20]
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