[CPM-SPIRE-L] Fwd: Sad New about Alberto

[Srinivas Aluru]

Amihood and the rest of the CPM-SPIRE community,

         As a colleague in the same School at Georgia Tech, we are 
shocked and deeply saddened by the news. In fact, my group jointly 
submitted a journal paper with Alberto to the RECOMB special issue of 
the Journal of Computational Biology just the Thursday night of last 
week. He was a great colleague, scientist, and a mentor.

Srinivas

On 7/21/2015 4:59 AM, Amihood Amir wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> Today is a hard day for our community. One of the founders of
> combinatorial pattern matching passed away last night.
> See Raffaele's message below.
>
> Our hearts are with Titti and Rosa.
>
>
> -- Ami
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raffaele Giancarlo [mailto:raffaele.giancarlo at unipa.it]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 11:13 AM
> To: landau at cs.haifa.ac.il
> Subject: Sad New about Alberto
>
> Dear Friend,
>
> last night here in Lipari Alberto had a massive hearth attach. He is no
> longer with us.
> His family, I and a few other friends here are in a sort of vacuum.
> The only rather grim consolation is that, laying on his bed, he was the
> image of peace.
>
> Please share the  sad news  with the scientific community. I have
> contacted all Italian Universities in which Alberto has worked.
>
> His funeral will be in Salerno, where his wife and daughter have decided
> he should rest in piece.
>
> I will give you more news as I get them.
>
> Sadly,
>
> Raffaele
>
> ----- Fine messaggio inoltrato. -----
>
>
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School of Computational Science and Engineering
College of Computing
Co-Director, Strategic Initiative in Data Engineering and Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
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