Greg Papadopoulos

Greg Papadopoulos
Fields	High-performance computing
Institutions	Sun Microsystems
Alma mater	UCSD MIT
Doctoral advisor	Arvind (computer scientist)

Gregory Michael Papadopoulos (born 1958) is a Greek-American engineer, executive, and venture capitalist. He is the creator and lead proponent for Redshift, a theory on whether technology markets are over or under-served by Moore's Law.

Papadopoulos achieved a B.A. in systems science from the University of California, San Diego in 1979, and was the recipient of both S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1983 and 1988 respectively. At some time he held positions at Hewlett-Packard and Honeywell. While a graduate student, he worked at MIT spinoff PictureTel in its early days. His dissertation was on a dataflow architecture microprocessor, under advisor Professor Arvind. Along with David E. Culler, he developed a simplified approach to dataflow execution in a project named Monsoon.

Papadopoulos became assistant professor at MIT in 1988 and associate professor in May 1993, where he helped start Ergo Computing in 1988, and Exa Corporation in 1991. He was chief architect at Thinking Machines Corporation while on the MIT faculty starting in 1992. His research applied massively parallel techniques to high-performance computing.

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