Very sad news indeed. Alberto was a great community builder, leader and booster.  He was also
the only person I knew who could truly be called a Raconteur, with a capital R. I remember when
he turned 50 he said that he would now focus more on the ``life of the mind", making every minute
count. I know he did.
Dan

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Gonzalo Navarro <gnavarro@dcc.uchile.cl> wrote:

This is very sad news indeed. I saw Alberto just weeks ago, in CPM in Ischia, with all his joy of life. Rest in peace, Alberto. My condolences to his family.

Gonzalo

On Tue, 21 Jul 2015, 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@unipa.it]
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 11:13 AM
To: landau@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

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