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Greg Papadopoulos is Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Research and Development at Sun Microsystems Inc., directing the company's approximately $2 billion R&D portfolio with an eye toward innovation, simplicity and open development models. With more than 20 years' experience in the high-tech industry, he is responsible for managing Sun's technology decisions and architecture. His team leads Sun Labs, global engineering architecture and advanced development programs. Before joining Sun in 1994, Papadopoulos was senior architect and director of product strategy for Thinking Machines, where he led the design of the CM6 massively parallel supercomputer. He was previously an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a development engineer at Hewlett-Packard and Honeywell, where he designed flight control systems for Boeing jetliners. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, San Diego, as well as a master's degree and a Ph.D. from MIT.

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