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Books Code Reading, Code Quality, Analysis and Design of Discret Similar People Brian Kernighan, Jon Bentley, Charles Petzold, Karl Fogel, Yukihiro Matsumoto | ||
Guerilla tactics in goverment administration diomidis spinellis at tedxacademy
Diomidis D. Spinellis (Greek: Διομήδης Δ. Σπινέλλης; February 2, 1967, Athens) is a Greek computer science academic and author of the books Code Reading, Code Quality and Beautiful Architecture (co-author).
Spinellis holds an MEng degree in Software Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Science both from Imperial College London. He lives in Athens, Greece.
He is a Professor at the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business, and a member of the IEEE Software editorial board, contributing the Tools of the Trade column. Since 2013 he is also editor-in-chief of IEEE Software. Spinellis is a four-time winner of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (1988, 1990, 1991, 1995).
He is also a committer in the FreeBSD project, and author of a number of popular free or open-source systems: the UMLGraph declarative UML diagram generator, the bib2xhtml BibTeX to XHTML converter, the outwit Microsoft Windows data with command line programs integration tool suite, the CScout source code analyzer and refactoring browser, and the socketpipe fast IPC plumbing utility.
In 2008, together with a collaborator, Spinellis claimed that "red links" (a Wikipedia slang for wikilinks that lead to non-existing pages) is what drives Wikipedia growth.
On November 5, 2009, he was appointed the General Secretary of Information Systems at the Greek Ministry of Finance. In October 2011 he resigned citing personal reasons.