Christos Papadimitriou studied at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and at Princeton. He has taught at Harvard, MIT, Athens Polytechnic, Stanford, and UCSD and has been teaching at Berkeley since 1996, where he works on the theory of algorithms and complexity and its applications to databases, optimization, AI, networks, and game theory. He has published several books in his field. His novel, Turing: Lessons of Love, was published in 2003, and he has recently published a book of essays, Life Sentence to Hackers? He co-organised a symposium on mathematicsand narrative. Papadimitriou plays keyboards and sings in the rock group Positive Eigenvalues.
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