Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:29:48 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.2 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 19:11:41 GMT Content-length: 5572 Panagiotis Takis Metaxas

P. Takis Metaxas

Hi! Welcome to my home page. Some information about me: I am an assistant professor of Computer Science at Wellesley College, (about 10 miles from downtown Boston.) I was born in Patra, Greece (before she became one of the 10 ... hmmm 12 ... oops 15 states of the European Union - check the Maastricht treaty if you don't believe it). I studied Mathematics in the University of Athens before coming to the U.S. to study Computer Science at Brown University in 1985. I graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Dartmouth College in 1992.

If you want to send me email, click here or use address pmetaxas@wellesley.edu.


During the 1995-96 academic year, I was visiting the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT. You can find me at building NE43-313, call me at (617)253-7843 or send me email at takis@theory.lcs.mit.edu


Interests

When I am not meditating with my daughter, Danae, I am interested in Parallel Computing, Multimedia and Algorithm Visualization, and Computer Science Education. Specifically: Parallel Graph and Combinatorial Algorithms, Computing Issues of Parallel Machines, Parallel Algorithmic Techniques and Paradigms, Architecture-Specific Parallel Algorithms and Implementation, Realizable Models of Parallel and Distributed Computation, Human-Computer Interfaces for Cultural and Educatonal Multimedia, Development of Tools for Visualizing Sequential and Parallel Algorithms, CS Curriculum Development, Teaching Methods and Tools. I am a member of ACM and SIGACT's electronic publication board and of DAGS steering committee. I am also an editor of the electronic Journal of Universal Computer Science (J.UCS), published by Springer-Verlag. I also maintain the Dartmouth CS Alumni home page

Publications

A partial list of my technical reports appears at the Dartmouth CS abstracts pool. There is also a list of my papers that are available electronically. A couple of hypercard animations for connected components and updating minimum spanning trees (encoded in hexadecimal) are ftp-able. Read the README file for more information on the animations.

Other Information


Some Greek WebPages


***** OUR WEB PAGE RECEIVES 5 STARS

5 STARS AWARD: Following the trend that assigns stars to Web pages, we are happy to announce that our web page has received 5 stars by the author's daughter, Danae. Yesterday, when Danae was asked by her Dad "How many stars do you think daddy's page should get?", Danae showed without hesitation the five fingers of her right hand. (Those not familiar with the Greek Culture, may want to ask a Greek friend to fully appreciate the award.)

It should be noted that, unlike all the other star-awarding organizations, Danae does not sell anything (at least for the moment).


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