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It was approximately forty
years ago when he left his hometown, Herakleion, determined to dedicate
himself into research. Few weeks ago he was back in Crete, but this time
he carried in his suitcase the highest honor in the field of Computer
Science: The Turing Prize of 2007, were awarded to him for his pioneer
work on model checking. We are talking about Sifis Sifakis the research
director of CNRS Grenoble, one of the internationally most known
scientists in Computer Science and the only Greek who were rewarded with
the “Nobel Prize for Computer Science”.
Sifis Sifakis is known for his avant-garde projects both in theoretical
and experimental level, in system modeling and their verification.
His recent research activities regard the systems of real time high
fidelity with applications to airplanes, space, cars, and
telecommunications.
He is active in transferring the research results to industry mainly in
cooperation with corporations like Airbus, Schneider Electric,
STMicroelectronics and France Telecom. Sifis Sifakis speaks about the
fundamental problems and technological challenges and applications of
science and especially Computer Science today, and he emphasizes that
digital technologies have radically changed our lives. “We need to
analyze and comprehend their consequences and use them correctly”, he
notes, and underlines that “the misuse of the Internet must not put in
question our civil liberties, and we need to be vigilant for protecting
our personal data”.
The research director in CNRS Grenoble states that the evolution of our
future will be in the field of “Object’s Internet”, that is the
convolution of the Internet with the embodied systems which will allow
the user to control even his home appliances with just a mouse “click”.
Katerina Mylona
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