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MIKIS (THEODORAKIS) FOREVER An exclusive interview with the great Cretan composer and freedom militant who celebrated his 80th birthday this year.

SIFIS SIFAKIS AND THE TURING PRIZE. 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 filed 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”. 

THE PLANET HUNTER Paul Kalas , an astronomer of Cretan origins working in the University of Berkeley in California. Kalas made us proud, as he was the first to detect and obtain visible-light images of an extra-solar planet with a Hubble Space Telescope, opening a whole new chapter in the grand and infinite “book of space”.

OUR OBJECTIVE IS AN ONLINE CRETAN UNIVERSITY The Cretans of diaspora (leaving all over the world) met again this summer for the congress of the World Council of Cretans. The chairman of the Council, George Simantiris emphasized on the need of connecting the Cretans of the island with those of the diaspora and particularly of the Cretan community in the USA.

...BUT THE ANSWERS MAY CHANGE A pioneer of molecular biology, the second great revolution in bio-sciences, Fotis Kafatos, actually chairman of the European Research Council, answers to a series of crucial questions, though the “answers might change”, as biology is considered the most rapidly evolving sector of contemporary science..

FROM “KYDON” OF CHANIA TO THE MYTHICAL WORLD OF THE NBA One of the very few Greeks basket players who were invited to join a very exclusive club, the NBA championship, Andreas Glyniadakis plays with the Seattle Supersonics and represents Greece and Crete.

THE TURKISH-CRETAN WHO CAPTURED HISTORY Rahmizade Behaedin transferred in his glass plates pictures of Crete. According to myth he was riding his white horse around the island capturing images of landscape and people, while many Cretans fascinated with the new invention visited his photographic studio for their first family photo. 

CINEMA HAS DIED 10 YEARS AGO The name of Walter Lassaly reminds us automatically the well known film "Zorba the Greek", directed by Mihalis Kakogiannis, as he was awarded an Oscar for photography. Actually Walter Lassaly lives near Chania, in the village of Stavros, where some famous plans of “Zorbas” were shot.

A CRETAN THAT DESIGNS THE TALLER BUILDINGS OF THE WORLD  One of the most important contemporary engineers and a fervent Cretan, Manny Velivasakis  has designed the tallest existing skyscraper (the Petronas Towers in Malaysia), was in charge of cleaning the ruins of the World Trading Centre  after the destruction of 11^th September 2001  and will claim the presidency of the Pancretan Union of America

PERFORMING THE IMPOSSIBLE Born in Hania, Georgos Lampathakis has won two Emmy awards for the National Geographic Television 

THE MESSENGER OF HOMER A brave man who helped communicate messages between Greek and allied forces on Crete during the Second World War, George Psihountakis has also traduced Homer to the Cretan idiom 

NIKOS KAKLAMANAKIS: The Olympics wind-surfing gold medalist speaks of himself, his aims and goals, and winds up the conversation with . . . a stanza.

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