[CPM-SPIRE-L] the ultimate Raconteur

[Rao Kosaraju]

Dear Friends,

Passing of Alberto is a great loss to pattern matching community, and more
generally to computer science. Alberto was a deep thinker and a dedicated
teacher. I had the good fortune of being his colleague at Purdue for one
year. He was always full of energy and humor. When I contacted him last year
to wish him good luck with his health, he sounded very cheerful - the old
Alberto I knew.

I hope he rests in peace,
Rao Kosaraju

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Giancarlo
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 6:25 PM
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Subject: [CPM-SPIRE-L] the ultimate Raconteur


Dear All,

this is a message from an undergraduate at University of Salerno. I met
Professor Apostolico in November 1978.
He was teaching a first year course in the Computer Science Curriculum at
Unisa: Teoria e Applicazioni delle Macchine Calcolatrici. It became
immediately  clear to all of the student body  that Professor Apostolico was
very special. Indeed, over the next few years, in addition to this new thing
of pattern matching and compression algorithms, his storytelling was a
strong magnet for many of us.

As many of you in this list, I had the privilege to listen to his stories,
work with him, even meet during Christmas vacations for a chat in Salerno.
For many many years.

The last story comes from Lipari. It is short chronicle. After CPM in  
Ischia, an island that he was very close to,   he sailed for a couple  
of weeks the Eolian Islands, with friends and family.
He went from Salerno to Maratea, then crossed to Stromboli. Finally, he got
to Lipari for the school. When I saw his boat docking in the harbor my
undergraduate hearth started beating very fast: more stories, more fun and
more things to do.

More Alberto!!!.

I called him up immediately.

Unfortunately, last night, this came to an end and I went through moments
that I do not wish to anyone.

I feel a void, but thanks to you this undergraduate does not feel lonely
tonight.


I can still see Obliqua docked, so the only thing that I can say is:

Buon Vento Alberto.

raffaele

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