Just few, intense words to remember Alberto.

As soon as I’ve got the sad news from Raffaele, my thought immediately went to CPM 2008 in Pisa where Alberto participated actively, establishing connections and talking widely to young researchers and friends.

Here I attach the photos in which Alberto is celebrating his 60^th birthday, proud of the colorful cake, of the volume SAIL edited by Raffaele and Stefano in TCS, and explaining to my daughter what does it mean the single candle;-)

Paolo

Da: cpm-spire-l-bounces@lists.cs.ucr.edu [mailto:cpm-spire-l-bounces@lists.cs.ucr.edu] Per conto di Michal Ziv-Ukelson
Inviato: mercoledì 29 luglio 2015 11:38
A: Kaizhong Zhang <kzhang@csd.uwo.ca>
Cc: cpm-spire-l@lists.cs.ucr.edu; Amihood Amir <amir@macs.biu.ac.il>
Oggetto: Re: [CPM-SPIRE-L] Fwd: Sad New about Alberto

Alberto was a one-of-a-kind researcher with a keen eye for important open problems.  As we all know, it takes a village to raise a child.  Alberto's generosity, willingness to help colleagues and encouragement of junior researchers was key to making our community into that village. My heart is with his family.  Alberto will be sorely missed.

Michal

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Kaizhong Zhang <kzhang@csd.uwo.ca> wrote:

This is very sad and shocking news.  I always feel that Alberto is a
mentor to me.  My condolences to his family.

Kaizhong

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
>
> ----- Fine messaggio inoltrato. -----
>
>
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