Greg Papadopoulos is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Sun Microsystems, where he is responsible for managing the company's technology and architecture.

Before joining Sun, he was Senior Architect and Director of Product Strategy for Thinking Machines.

He was an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at M.I.T. and was a development engineer at Hewlett-Packard and Honeywell.

Dr. Papadopoulos has co-founded three companies: PictureTel (video conferencing), Ergo (high-end PCs), and Exa Corporation (computational fluid dynamics).

He holds a B.A. in Systems Science from the University of California at San Diego, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from M.I.T.