Michail Bletsas (born March 19, 1967) is a Greek research scientist and the Director of Computing at the MIT Media Lab.

Early life Bletsas was born in Chania, Crete. He studied at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and received a master's degree in computer engineering from Boston University.Biography as a keynote speaker at the Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, 2007, retrieved 2010-06-23.

Career Before joining the Media Lab, Bletsas was a Systems Engineer at Aware Inc. He is one of the founders of the Greek mobile advertising and marketing company Velti S.A. and he was also one of the leaders in an effort to provide wireless networking to the island of Patmos, Greece.Nortel Wireless Mesh Boosts Broadband for Patmos Islanders , Nortel, July 23, 2008..

Since June 23, 2010, Bletsas is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA (Athens, Greece).

OLPC Michail Bletsas is one of the designers of OLPC's XO laptop. . He was one of the principals of the OLPC team Michail Bletsas, Chief Connectivity Officer, One Laptop Per Child where he made various contributions, including the design and implementation of the first embedded layer-2 wifi mesh stack. From February 2006 to January 2009, he was OLPC's Chief Connectivity Officer and VP Advanced TechnologyOLPC's Interview: OLPC's Michail Bletsas and he was member of the group which received the Community category award of the 2007 Index: Award, for the design of the OLPC XO-1 laptop computer..

Conferences He was a keynote speaker at the 4th and 5th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, 2007CCNC 2007 and 2008CCNC 2008 keynote speakers respectively, at the 8th International Conference on Computer Based Learning in Science in Heraklion, Crete, 2007,CBLIS 2007 program , retrieved 2010-06-24. at Disruptions 2007 in Athens, Greece,Meet the speakers, Disruptions 2007, retrieved 2010-06-24. and at the 4th Balkan Conference in Informatics in Thessaloniki, Greece, 2009.Call for participation, BCI 2009, retrieved 2010-06-24.

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External links

MIT Media Lab "http://web.media.mit.edu/~mbletsas/"