Panagiotis Takis Metaxas is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and co-Director of the Media Arts and Sciences Program at Wellesley College (located about 10 miles west of Boston). He studied Mathematics at the University of Athens and Computer Science at Brown. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Dartmouth (advisor: Donald B. Johnson) and has been a visiting scientist at MIT and at the Sydney Uni. He spent a couple of years working as the Chief Technology Officer of a biotech company specializing in computerized tests for measuring the symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD). He is a member of LACS, ACM, IEEE Computer Society, SIGCSE and SIGACT's electronic publication board.

His research interests are currently in Cybertrust, Web Spam and Cognitive Hacking. He has also published in the areas of Parallel Computing, Multimedia, Algorithm Visualization, and Computer Science Education. Specifically: Parallel Graph and Combinatorial Algorithms, Parallel Algorithmic Techniques and Paradigms, Realizable Models of Parallel and Distributed Computation, Human-Computer Interfaces for Cultural and Educational Multimedia, CS Curriculum Development, Teaching Methods and Tools.

You can access some of his papers available online, and of his ACM publications on a local server, (You can also access copies that reside on ACM's Digital Library, but you have to be a member of ACM to access those files).