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

[bhz]

Very shocking and sad news indeed. I first
met Alberto in 2005 at COCOON, when I first
seriously switched to computational biology.
Every meeting with him after that was
helpful to me. Our thoughts are with his
family.

--Binhai

On 2015-07-21 02:52, 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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> 
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> Links:
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> [1] http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/
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