Dr. Boukas graduated in 1985 with a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In 1998, he then received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He then accepted a full-time lecturer position in the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering at the University of Aegean, researching computer science. He was responsible for parallelization meteorological forecast code for the National Meteorological Hellenic Center (same nonparallel code run in Olympics Atlanta ’96), and created the parallel Princeton Ocean Model and parallel effort of the Climate Model MESSy (Max Plank Inst. of Chemistry). He has been with Archimedean Academy as a Math professor for several years with experience in lower and upper elementary.