Christopher Melissinos | |
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| Born | New York, New York |
| Citizenship | American Greek |
| Known for | Chief Gaming Officer at Sun Founder of Javagaming.org Guest Curator and Creator of "The Art of Video Games" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum |
| Awards | 13th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards - Industry Ambassador |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer gaming Computer science |
| Institutions | Sun Microsystems |
Christopher Robert Melissinos is a leading figure in the Java programming language community.[1] He served as Sun Microsystems' Chief Evangelist and Chief Gaming Officer. During his tenure at Sun, he was responsible for the creation of their Game Technologies Group and was a driving political force behind the formation of several open source Java gaming technologies including Project Darkstar, and Java bindings for OpenGL, OpenAL and Jinput.
Melissinos is a prolific speaker, regularly speaking at conferences such as the Consumer Electronics Show, Electronic Entertainment Expo, Game Developers Conference, Harvard's Cyberposium, Java Conference in Milan, Italy, and Ziff-Davis's Electronic Gaming Summit.[2] He was also the host of JavaOne in 2009.[1]
- ^ a b "General Session Biographies". Archived from the original on 2009-06-05.
- ^ "2002 Ziff-Davis Cross-Pollination Conference Game Summit". Facebook.