Michail Bletsas | |
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| Born | 1967 Chania |
| Occupation | Academic and Computer Scientist |
Michail Bletsas (born March 19, 1967) is a Greek research scientist and the Director of Computing at the MIT Media Lab.
Michail Bletsas | |
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| Born | 1967 Chania |
| Occupation | Academic and Computer Scientist |
Michail Bletsas (born March 19, 1967) is a Greek research scientist and the Director of Computing at the MIT Media Lab.
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]
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]
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]
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]
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