Diomidis D. Spinellis (Greek: Διομήδης Δ. Σπινέλλης) is a Greek computer science academic and author of the books "Code Reading" and "Code Quality."
Spinellis holds an MEng degree in Software Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Science both from Imperial College London (University of London, UK). He lives in Athens, Greece.
He is a Professor at the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business, and a member of the IEEE Software editorial board, contributing the Tools of the Trade[1] column. He is a four-time winner of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest (1988, 1990, 1991, 1995). His Erdős number is 4. He is also a committer in the FreeBSD project, and author of a number of popular free or open-source systems: the UMLGraph[2] declarative UML diagram generator, the bib2xhtml[3] BibTeX to XHTML converter, the outwit[4] Microsoft Windows data with command line programs integration tool suite, the CScout[5] source code analyzer and refactoring browser, and the socketpipe[6] fast IPC plumbing utility.
In 2008, together with a collaborator, Spinellis discovered that red links is what drives Wikipedia growth.[7]
On the 5th of November 2009, he was appointed the General Secretary of Information Systems at the Greek Ministry of Finance.
   | UMLGraph - UMLGraph now lives under http://www.umlgraph.org |
| | bib2xhtml - bib2xhtml - Convert BibTeX Files into HTML |
| | Diomidis Spinellis home page - Diomidis D. Spinellis home page |
| | CScout - CScout: The C Refactoring Browser |
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