Greg Papadopoulos (Sun Microsystems) - Responsible Engineering in the Modern Age

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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🗓️ 14 October 2009

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Whereas the 20th century belonged to the scientist, the 21st century, says Sun Micosystems' CTO Greg Papadopoulos, is the domain of the engineer. Rather than secretly toiling away on new discoveries, modern engineers are concerned about social responsibility, renewable materials and product lifecycles, collaborative and open source discovery, and furthering industry-wide innovation.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the DFJ Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders series, brought you weekly by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
0:10.3	You can find podcasts and videos of these lectures online at eChorner.standford.edu.
0:18.3	It is my sincere pleasure today to welcome our esteemed guest, Greg Papadopoulos, and let
0:25.0	me tell you a little bit about him. He's currently the CTO of Sun Microsystems, but when he
0:29.5	was your age, he was a student. He started out at UC San Diego and then went on to MIT, and he
0:36.6	stayed on at MIT. He got his master's and his PhD,
0:39.3	and then stayed on as a faculty member
0:41.3	where he taught CS and electrical engineering.
0:43.3	He left MIT to go start several companies.
0:46.3	And since 1994, he's been at Sun Microsystems
0:49.3	as their chief technology officer.
0:51.3	He's got a terrific talk today called Citizen Engineer.
0:55.1	Can't wait to hear it.
0:56.0	OK.
0:56.5	Thank you.
0:57.0	Take care.
0:57.3	Thank you.
0:59.0	And I really appreciate the opportunity.
1:06.7	So I'm kind of a high bandwidth sort of person.
1:11.1	I do like being back here in kind of, I saw the chalk back here.
1:16.0	This dates back to when I used to lecture was with chalk.
1:19.9	And given the opportunity, I'm going to turn off all
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