Fotios Zaharoglou
Fotios Zaharoglou (born April 9, 1963 in Thessaloniki ) is a Greek computer scientist .
Zaharoglou obtained his diploma in electrical engineering in 1986 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , then went to Caltech (Master's degree 1987) and received his doctorate in 1993 from the University of California, San Diego , with Michael Saks (Distributed data structures and wait-free computation) .
In 2004 he received the Gödel Prize with Maurice Herlihy , Nir Shavit and Michael Saks for his essay with Saks: Wait-Free k-Set Agreement is Impossible: The Topology of Public Knowledge (SIAM Journal on Computing, Volume 29, 2000, p. 1449-1483). The work showed the role of topology in solving problems in distributed computing.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information in his dissertation 2003
- ↑ An essay by the two of the same name is in Proc. STOC 1993, San Diego
- ↑ Laudation Gödel Prize 2004
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| SURNAME | Zaharoglou, Fotios |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thessaloniki |