Diomidis D. Spinellis (Greek: Διομήδης Δ. Σπινέλλης; 2 February 1967, Athens) is a Greekcomputer science academic and author of the books Code Reading, Code Quality, Beautiful Architecture (co-author) and Effective Debugging.[4][1][2]
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.[15]
On 5 November 2009 he was appointed the General Secretary of Information Systems at the Greek Ministry of Finance.[16] In October 2011, he resigned citing personal reasons.[17][18]
On 20 March 2015 he was elected President of Open Technologies Alliance (GFOSS).[19] GFOSS is a non-profit organization founded in 2008, 36 Universities and Research Centers are shareholders of GFOSS. The main goal of GFOSS is to promote Openness through the use and the development of Open Standards and Open Technologies in Education, Public Administration and Business in Greece. Spinellis uses open-source software to teach software engineering to his students.[20]
^Spinellis, D.; Fragkoulis, M. (2017). "Extending Unix Pipelines to DAGs". IEEE Transactions on Computers. 66 (9): 1547–1561. doi:10.1109/TC.2017.2695447. S2CID24187971.
^Spinellis, Diomidis; Louridas, Panagiotis (2008). "The collaborative organization of knowledge". Communications of the ACM. 51 (8): 68–73. doi:10.1145/1378704.1378720. S2CID77400. Most new articles are created shortly after a corresponding reference to them is entered into the system
^Palaiologos, Yiannis (2015) The 13th Labour of Hercules: Inside the Greek Crisis, Portobello Books Ltd, ISBN978-1846275869