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George Zarkadakis is a novelist, playwright and science journalist. He studied Systems Engineering at City University, London and has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. His academic interests are philosophy of science with an emphasis on the culture, ideology and technology of Artificial Intelligence, and he writes the relevant blog “Turing Dreams“.
He has worked for several companies and organizations including the European Commission, Andersen Consulting (Accenture), Silicon Graphics and the European Bioinformatics Institute. In 2000 he launched in Greece the popular science magazine “Focus” as its Editor-in-Chief and made it one of the most successful titles in the country. In 2007 he created Avgo Books, a boutique popular science book imprint. He is the scriptwriter and editor of “Eureka“, the most successful popular science program on Greek TV. He is currently a research associate at Imperial College, London; and CEO of Feline Quanta, a consulting company specializing in science policy and public engagement.
His first novel ”The Secrets of the Lands Without“ was published in 1994 and was concurrently released on the World Wide Web, as the “first Greek Novel on the Internet”. In 1996 he published ”East of the End“, a runner-up for the prestigious Greek State Literary Prize. ”Archipelago Republic“ was published in 1999. In 2001 he published the popular science book “The Mystery of Mind: how the brain evokes consciousness”. In 2004 he published his fourth novel“The Passage” in Greece and Italy (2007). His latest novel (“The Island Survival Guide”) was published in Spain and Greece in 2009. A number of his plays were staged in Athens. He has also written short stories and a poetry collection.
He’s recently finished writing the play “Turing“ about the last days in the life of English mathematician Alan Turing, and continues working on a new novel.
