Nikolaos G. Bourbakis (Νικόλαος Μπουρμπάκης; born 1950 in

Chania Chania ( el, Χανιά ; vec, La Canea), also spelled Hania, is a city in Greece and the capital of the Chania regional unit. It lies along the north west coast of the island Crete, about west of Rethymno and west of Heraklion. The muni ...

Crete Crete ( el, Κρήτη, translit=, Modern: , Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, ...

) is a Greek computer scientist known for his work in image processing. , he is Ohio Board of Regents Distinguished Professor of

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and director of both the Information Technology Research Institute and the Assistive Technologies Research at Wright State University in

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, United States. He is the founder and

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() of the '' International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools''. Bourbakis studied mathematics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, then electrical engineering at the

University of Patras The University of Patras (UPatras; el, Πανεπιστήμιο Πατρών, ''Panepistímio Patrón'') is a public university in Patras, Greece. It is the third-largest university in Greece with respect to the size of the student body, the s ...

, which awarded him a PhD in computer engineering and informatics in 1983. Bourbakis received the

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Technical Achievement Award in 1998 " r outstanding and pioneering contributions to space filling curves for image processing and intelligent visual navigation of

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s in unknown space."

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* * 1950 births Living people People from Chania University of Patras alumni National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni Greek computer scientists Greek expatriates in the United States American computer scientists Wright State University faculty Academic journal editors {{Greece-bio-stub