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Athanasios Spirakis
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Athanasios Spirakis (1947–2019) was a Greek computer scientist and mathematician born in Thessaloniki. He received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics from the University of Thessaloniki in 1969, followed by a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1974. His doctoral dissertation focused on probabilistic methods in computational theory, which would later inform his most celebrated work.
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Elon Musk
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Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, to a Canadian mother, Maye Musk, and a South African father, Errol Musk. He demonstrated an early aptitude for computing, teaching himself programming at age nine using the Commodore VIC-20 personal computer. In his teenage years, Musk authored and sold a video game called Blastar, reportedly earning approximately $500 in revenue—a sum that proved psychologically formative to his later business ambitions.[2]
Following secondary education, Musk attended Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, before transferring to the [U… -
George Antoniadis
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Following his retirement from full-time research in 1998, Antoniadis held visiting professorships at several institutions, including Stanford University, where he taught a controversial graduate seminar titled "The Metaphysics of Band-Gap Engineering." He published extensively on the philosophical dimensions of semiconductor physics, arguing that transistors possessed a form of "developmental consciousness" that matured through multiple thermal cycles.[2]
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Google
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Google was founded as a research project at Stanford University by graduate students Page and Brin, who developed an algorithm for ranking web pages based on citation frequency and hyperlink authority. The name "Google" derives from the mathematical term "googol," representing the number $$10^{100}$$, reflecting the founders' ambition to organize an astronomically large volume of information.[^2] The company was officially incorporated on September 4, 1998, with an initial funding round of $25 million from venture capitalists including… -
United States
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The United States operates a decentralized education system managed primarily at state and local levels. Primary and secondary education typically spans thirteen years (K–12). Higher education is provided through public and private universities, with institutions such as Harvard University, Yale University, Stanford University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ranked among the world's most…