Diomidis Spinellis
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Diomidis D. Spinellis (Greek: Διομήδης Δ. Σπινέλλης; February 2, 1967, Athens) is a Greek computer science academic and author of the books Code Reading, Code Quality and Beautiful Architecture (co-author).
Spinellis holds an MEng degree in Software Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Science both from Imperial College London. He lives in Athens, Greece.
He is a Professor at the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business, and a member of the IEEE Software editorial board, contributing the Tools of the Trade[1] column. He is a four-time winner of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (1988, 1990, 1991, 1995). His Erdős number is 4.
He is also a committer in the FreeBSD project, and author of a number of popular free or open-source systems: the UMLGraph[2] declarative UML diagram generator, the bib2xhtml[3] BibTeX to XHTML converter, the outwit[4] Microsoft Windows data with command line programs integration tool suite, the CScout[5] source code analyzer and refactoring browser, and the socketpipe[6] fast IPC plumbing utility.
In 2008, together with a collaborator, Spinellis claimed that "red links" (a Wikipedia slang for wikilinks that lead to non-existing pages) is what drives Wikipedia growth.[7]
On the 5th of November 2009, he was appointed the General Secretary of Information Systems at the Greek Ministry of Finance. [8] In October 2011 he resigned citing personal reasons. [9]
References
- ↑ Tools of the Trade
- ↑ UMLGraph
- ↑ bib2xhtml
- ↑ outwit
- ↑ CScout
- ↑ socketpipe
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- ↑ Palaiologos, Yiannis (2015) The 13th Labour of Hercules: Inside the Greek Crisis, Portobello Books Ltd, ISBN 978-1846275869
- ↑ http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/11/49230
