Chris Melissinos

Christopher Melissinos
Christopher Melissinos
Citizenship	American
Fields	Computer gaming Computer science
Institutions	Sun Microsystems
Known for	Chief Gaming Officer at Sun Founder of Javagaming.org Host of SHIFT Radio show

Christopher Robert Melissinos is a leading figure in the Java community.^[1] He serves as Sun Microsystems' Chief Evangelist and Chief Gaming Officer. During his tenure at Sun, he was responsible for the creation of their Game Technologies Group and was a driving political force behind the formation of several open source Java gaming technologies including Project Darkstar, and Java bindings for OpenGL, OpenAL and input.

Melissinos is a prolific speaker, regularly speaking at conferences such as the Consumer Electronics Show, Electronic Entertainment Expo, Game Developers Conference, Harvard's Cyberposium, Java^TM Conference in Milan, Italy, and Ziff-Davis's Electronic Gaming Summit.^[2] He was also the host of JavaOne 2009.

Past Pixels

In 2009, Chris Melissinos founded the Past Pixels organization that is dedicated to the preservation of video games.

• Past Pixels website: www.PastPixels.com

The Art of Video Games Exhibition

Past Pixels is leading "The Art of Video Games" exhibition that will be held at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from March 16, 2012 to September 30, 2012.^[3] The exhibit aims to demonstrate the influence of art and popular culture on video games, and the subsequent reflection of video games on culture with titles spanning over four decades of gaming. Chris Melissinos is the exhibit curator and he has created an advisor board made up of experts, developers, and journalists in the interactive entertainment industry.^[4]

• Smithsonian American Art Museum "The Art of Video Games" Exhibit Information
• The Art of Video Games voting site

External links

• Interview with Sun's Chris Melissinos, LWN.net
• Podcasts by Chris Melissinos
• Twitter feed
• Executive biography
• Host of 2009 JavaOne

References

1. ^ "' Host of 2009 JavaOne'". http://java.sun.com/javaone/2009/general_session_bios.jsp. 
2. ^ "' 2002 Ziff-Davis Cross-Pollination Conference Game Summit'". http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3571310&l=f6dfc76811&id=500018. 
3. ^ http://www.americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/archive/2012/games/
4. ^ http://www.pastpixels.com/theartofvideogames/advisorygroup/

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