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

[Rolf Backofen]

I very sorry to hear this, the community owes so much to Alberto.
Condolensce to Titti and Rosa.

Rolf

Am 21.07.15 um 15:49 schrieb 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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