Vasilis papakonstantinou biography samples
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New Greek TV Interview with Vasilis Papakonstantinou (Video Available)
Translation By Lisa Darilis
"Don't give up! Resist misery and side with life!" This was the message Greek Rock legend Vasilis Papakonstantinou had for Greeks during his interview with New Greek T.V. reporter Demetris Filippides.
Papakonstantinou has been in New York since Thursday evening, as he will be performing at Queens College's Colden Theater on Saturday at 8 p.m.
"In March, when I came to New York after so many years, people had a good time. It was due to public demand that I returned, so that's why I'm here today," Papakonstantinou chiefly mentioned, adding that is is just seven months since his last appearance. He said that he is being entertained by known associates of the Greek community. In addition, as he characteristically usually shares, he remembers how his fellow villagers were waiting for letters or parcels from expatriated Greeks to arrive at the local coffee house. This was the usual pla
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Bio
Petros Maragos (Fellow, IEEE) received the M.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece, in 1980, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Atlanta, GA, USA, in 1982 and 1985, respectively.,In 1985, he joined the Faculty of the Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA, where he worked for eight years as a Professor of electrical engineering with the Harvard Robotics Laboratory. In 1993, he joined the Faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Georgia Tech, where he was with the Center for meddelande and Image Processing. From 1996 to 1998, he had a joint appointment as the Director of Research at the Institute of Language and Speech Processing, Athens. Since 1999, he has been a Professor with the School of ECE, NTUA, where he fryst vatten currently the Director of the smart eller klok Robotics and Automation Laboratory. He has held
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Rock music in Greece
Greek appreciation of and contributions to the rock music genre
Rock and roll entered Greece in the middle of the 1960s. Greek rock performers in the field include Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Dimitris Poulikakos. Greek rock bands well known globally are Aphrodite's Child, Socrates Drank the Conium and The Last Drive.
1960s
[edit]Greek rock (Greek: Ελληνικό ροκ, pronounced[eliniˈkorok]) originated in the early 1960s with the creation of several anglophone pop-rock bands such as The Forminx (which included composer Vangelis), The Charms, The Idols[1] , The Olympians, Juniors, M.G.C. and many more. 1968 in Paris saw the formation of Aphrodite's Child, (Vangelis, Demis Roussos and Loukas Sideras) one of the most important and successful Greek rock bands that achieved international fame with their albums It's Five O'Clock (1969) and 666 (1972). Another aspect of Greek rock in the late '60s saw the release of the first albums by Dionysis Savvop