{"id":16538,"date":"2022-03-11T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rgc.gr\/?page_id=16538"},"modified":"2022-04-07T09:45:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T09:45:16","slug":"michail-bletsas","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rgc.gr\/gr\/speakers-2022\/michail-bletsas\/","title":{"rendered":"Michail Bletsas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"16538\" class=\"elementor elementor-16538\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4571740 elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4571740\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column 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elementor-size-default\">Michail Bletsas<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1636650 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1636650\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInRight&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Director of Computing, MIT Media Lab<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b1c2cec animated-slow elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b1c2cec\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michail Bletsas is a Research Scientist and the Director of Computing at MIT\u2019s Media Lab where he has been working since 1996. He is responsible for all the infrastructure that the lab uses to produce, store, transport and consume its bits.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0He was a member of the core technical and design team for the \u201cOne Laptop Per Child\u201d initiative which created OLPC\u2019s pioneering, award-winning \u201cXO\u201d laptop. His current research interests include network security, wireless networks, automating fake news detection and building efficient high performance machine learning computing infrastructures.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Over the years, he has advised governments around technology policy issues and provided expert opinion in technical matters to top-level officials. He has cofounded two companies, has been a director and consulted for many others in a variety of capacities.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0He has implemented broadband access networks using cutting-edge technologies including one of the earliest ADSL testbeds and various wireless technologies. Mr. Bletsas has been a frequent keynote speaker in international conferences and has been engaged in many civic activities.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-808d80e elementor-shape-circle e-grid-align-left elementor-grid-0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-social-icons\" data-id=\"808d80e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"social-icons.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-social-icons-wrapper elementor-grid\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-grid-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-icon elementor-social-icon elementor-social-icon-linkedin elementor-repeater-item-7f565d3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/michailbletsas\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-screen-only\">Linkedin<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fab fa-linkedin\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-06b2162 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"06b2162\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f95f510\" data-id=\"f95f510\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e8660c2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"e8660c2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet our Speakers Michail Bletsas Director of Computing, MIT Media Lab Michail Bletsas is a Research Scientist and the Director of Computing at MIT\u2019s Media Lab<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":11921,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16538","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rgc.gr\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rgc.gr\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rgc.gr\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rgc.gr\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rgc.gr\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rgc.gr\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16538\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rgc.gr\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rgc.gr\/gr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}