• Question: Who is the most famous person you have met?

    Asked by Jammyemoji to Petros on 9 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Petros Papapanagiotou

      Petros Papapanagiotou answered on 9 Nov 2017:

      I have met 3 different winners of the Turing Award, which is considered the Nobel Prize of computer science: Dana Scott, a invented key concepts in computer theory, Robin Milner, a pioneer of computer science. and Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Internet. They have all inspired me in different ways. Particularly Robin Milner (who sadly died in 2010) is a role model for me. I consider him the smartest person I have ever met. My entire work would not have been possible if it weren’t for his inventions.

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