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Α Greek as CIA’s Chief Operating Officer
[:el]A Greek is in the top position of the CIA’s Chief Operating Officer (CΟO), according to Service Director, Gina Haspel. This is the Greek-American Andrew (Andy) Makridis, with the 32-year-old service to the CIA. The means and power of the CIA’s COO will be enormous...
Received one of the most distinguished Maths awards
[:el]Konstantinos Daskalakis, the mathematician, who at the age of 27 solved the riddle of Nash, Professor of the prestigious MIT University, is now honored with one of the most important awards in mathematics, the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize. He said that the award is one of...
Artificial intelligence program by a Greek lead
[:el]A team of researchers led by a Greek IT specialist created an Artificial Intelligence program that “reads” people’s lips remotely with great precision. The program was developed by researchers from Google and its British subsidiary, Deep Mind, which pioneered internationally in Artificial Intelligence, led by...
Gold at his first participation in such a top event
[:el]Miltiadis Tentoglou won the gold medal in the long jump at the European Athletics Championship in Berlin and had the greatest success of his career at the age of just 20 years. Last year’s “golden” Teen-champion of the Europian competition, conquered the highest place with...
Gold medal in high jump
[:el]A great achievement by the Greek athlete Antonis Merlos and his amazing appearance at the World Youth Championship, which was held in Tampere, and gave him the gold medal in the high jump, making a two-time personal record of 2.21m. and 2.23m. The young jumper,...
A photo exhibition showing Nafplio’s unique beauty
[:el]Fougaro, the modern art gallery of Nafplion, welcomed the exhibition “Nafplio Views”, with photos of the students of Δ.ΙΕΚ (Public Institute for Job Training) in Nafplion. The “Art of Photography” was taught for the first time this year and the students presented their work to...
METAXA and The Clumsies cooperate to honour Greece
In 2018, the House of Metaxa begins with The Clumsies a journey of exploration of Greece, through unique experiences and creations. Collaboration is a tribute to their common homeland, highlighting the beauty of Greece and the wonders of its nature. In 1888 Spyros Metaxas, a man...
A Greek Geologist in Antartica
Geologist Ioannis Baziotis is the assistant professor at the Agricultural University of Athens, who, along with other scientists, discovered and collected 263 meteorites in the coldest, driest, most unspoiled and beautiful part of the planet. He was the first Greek scientist to be selected and...
Uruguay is a fan of Greek culture
[:el]In the small country οf Uruguay and among the 3,500,000 million people, at least 6,000 speak fluent Greek, many of them are familiar with Ancient Greek and numerous streets and squares have Greek names, while statues of ancient philosophers adorn the public buildings of the...
Gold in Mathematics
[:el]Athens University of Mathematics student Georgios Kotsovolis won the gold medal at the 25th Mathematical Student Competition IMC (International Mathematics Competition), which was held from the 22-28 of July in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. This is an important success which is added to a series of accomplishments...