1. Paris Christos Kanellakis was a Greek American computer scientist.
11 Facts About Paris Kanellakis
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Paris Kanellakis continued his studies at the graduate level in electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Paris Kanellakis submitted his thesis The complexity of concurrency control for distributed databases in September 1981.
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Paris Kanellakis was awarded the doctorate degree in February 1982.
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Paris Kanellakis obtained tenure as associate professor in 1986, and became full professor in 1990.
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Paris Kanellakis interrupted his stay at Brown in 1984 for a junior sabbatical as visiting assistant professor at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, working with Nancy Lynch, and in 1988 for a year at INRIA on special assignment leave, working with Serge Abiteboul.
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Paris Kanellakis's awards include an IBM Faculty Development Award and a Sloan Research Fellowship in mathematics.
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Paris Kanellakis was born a Greek citizen, and obtained US citizenship in 1988.
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Paris Kanellakis died on December 20,1995, together with his wife, Maria Teresa Otoya, and their two children, Alexandra and Stephanos, in the crash of American Airlines Flight 965 while en route to an annual holiday reunion with his wife's family.
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Paris Kanellakis participated in the program committees of numerous editions of international meetings, including PODS, VLDB, LICS, STOC, FOCS, STACS, and PODC.
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Paris Kanellakis served as editorial advisor to the scientific journals Information and Computation, SIAM Journal on Computing, Theoretical Computer Science, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Journal of Logic Programming, Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science, and Applied Mathematics Letters.