Christos Papadimitriou

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Christos Papadimitriou
Born
Christos Charilaos Papadimitriou (Greek: Χρήστος Χαρίλαος "Χρίστος" Παπαδημητρίου)

(1949-08-16) August 16, 1949 (age 74)
Athens
Education
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisThe Complexity of Combinatorial Optimization Problems (1976)
Doctoral advisorKenneth Steiglitz[3]
Doctoral students
Websitewww.cs.berkeley.edu/~christos

Christos Charilaos Papadimitriou (Greek: Χρήστος Χαρίλαος "Χρίστος" Παπαδημητρίου; born August 16, 1949) is a Greek theoretical computer scientist and the Donovan Family Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University.[4][1][5][6][7][8]

Education

Papadimitriou studied at the

Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science in 1976 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "The complexity of combinatorial optimization problems."[9]

Career

Papadimitriou has taught at

UCSD, University of California, Berkeley
and is currently the Donovan Family Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University.

Papadimitriou co-authored a paper on

Albuquerque, New Mexico to run a small company writing code for microprocessors, of all things. I remember thinking: 'Such a brilliant kid. What a waste.'" The company was Microsoft.[10]

Papadimitriou co-authored "The Complexity of Computing a Nash Equilibrium" with his students Constantinos Daskalakis and Paul W. Goldberg, for which they received the 2008 Kalai Game Theory and Computer Science Prize from the Game Theory Society for "the best paper at the interface of game theory and computer science",[11] in particular "for its key conceptual and technical contributions";[12] and the Outstanding Paper Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

In 2001, Papadimitriou was inducted as a

National Academy of Sciences. During the 36th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2009), there was a special event honoring Papadimitriou's contributions to computer science.[14] In 2012, he, along with Elias Koutsoupias, was awarded the Gödel Prize for their joint work on the concept of the price of anarchy.[15]

Papadimitriou is the author of the textbook Computational Complexity, one of the most widely used textbooks in the field of computational complexity theory. He has also co-authored the textbook Algorithms (2008) with Sanjoy Dasgupta and Umesh Vazirani, and the graphic novel Logicomix (2009)[16] with Apostolos Doxiadis.

His name was listed in the 19th position on the

CiteSeer search engine academic database and digital library[citation needed
].

Honors and awards

In 1997, Papadimitriou received a

doctorate honoris causa from the ETH Zurich.[17]

In 2011, Papadimitriou received a

doctorate honoris causa from the National Technical University of Athens.[18]

In 2013, Papadimitriou received a

École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
.

Papadimitriou was awarded the

EATCS Award in 2015, the Gödel Prize in 2012, the IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award in 2004, and the Knuth Prize in 2002. In 2019 he received the Harvey Prize of the Technion/Israel for the year 2018.[19]

Publications

Personal life

At UC Berkeley, in 2006, he joined a professor-and-graduate-student band called Lady X and The Positive Eigenvalues.[21]

References

  1. ^ a b Christos Papadimitriou publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. ^ "Columbia Faculty". Retrieved 2017-08-05.
  3. ^ Christos Papadimitriou at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ "Christos Papadimitriou". 24 May 2018.
  5. ^ Christos Papadimitriou author profile page at the ACM Digital Library
  6. PMID 25349396
    .
  7. ^ Christos H. Papadimitriou at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  8. ^ Christos Papadimitriou's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  9. ^ "The complexity of combinatorial optimization problems". 1976.
  10. ^ "People of ACM — Christos Papadimitriou". People of ACM. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  11. ^ "Game Theory Society: Named Lectures and Prizes". www.gametheorysociety.org. Retrieved 2020-01-19.
  12. ^ "Prize in Game Theory and Computer Science of the Game Theory Society (2008)" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-01-19.
  13. ^ "Member Directory at NAE Website". Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  14. ^ "Special Events: Honoring Christos Papadimitriou Scientific Contribution to Computer Science". ICALP 2009 – 36th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming. Archived from the original on March 6, 2012.
  15. ^ "Three Papers Cited for Laying Foundation of Growth in Algorithmic Game Theory". 16 May 2012. Archived from the original on 18 July 2013. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  16. ^ Logicomix
  17. ^ "Honorary Doctorates, Department of Computer Science". Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  18. ^ "Live feed from the Award Ceremony of an honorary doctorate from the NTUA to the UC Berkeley Professor Chr. Papadimitriou". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2014-06-17.
  19. ^ Harvey Prize 2018
  20. doi:10.1016/0012-365X(79)90068-2
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  21. ^ "Engineers rock — Out of the EECS department comes a hot new band". Archived from the original on May 31, 2013. Retrieved 2013-12-29.
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