Gheorghe M. Stefan

Professor
Politechnica University of Bucharest
Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications & Information Technology
DCAE Chair
Bucharest, ROMANIA

Email: gstefan@arh.pub.ro

Skype name: gheorghe.stefan

Phone: +4021 230 27 14 (home)

Phone: +4021 402 48 14 (office)

Phone: 603 595 1915 (USA)

RESEARCH

"If you get a letter of recommendation that counts number of publications, rather than commenting substantively on a candidate's contributions, ignore it."

David Lorge Parnas: "Stop the Numbers Game. Counting papers slows the rate of scientific progress", Communication of the ACM , November 2007.

The following technical & scientific subjects haunted me in the last few decades:

• Toward a Science of Parallel Computing
• One-Chip TeraArchitecture
• On Control
• Integral Parallel Computation
• Parallel I/O System
• The Supra-Linear Condition for Parallel Computation
• The Algorithmic Complexity & Digital Circuits
• 0-State Universal Turing Machine
• The Connex Project
• Lisp Machine
• Functional Information
• Loops & Recursive Functions
• Loops & Formal languages
• Loop Based Taxonomy for Digital Systems
• Virtual Multi-Processor

Meantime, anxious about non technical matters, I wrote the following texts:

• Ethos - Pathos - Logos.
  
• Limite care deschid. Eseuri despre o lume avida de intelesuri si coplesita de complexitate (Opening Limits. Essays about a world hungry of meanings and oppressed by complexity), a collection of texts published in the last few decades (in Romanian).
• Structural-Phenomenoligical Modeling papers in Noesis
• ``Profunzimile Existentei" in filosofia secolului XX un text ce poate explica in mare masura de ce aceasta sub-sectiune a paginii web exista.

TEACHING

• Functional Electronics
• Digital Integrated Circuits
• Self_Organizing Systems(in Politehnica University of Bucharest)
• Basic Digital Blocks (Infineon Master in Politehnica University of Bucharest)


• Computer Architecture (in Politehnica University of Bucharest, Brasov University, St. Mary's College of Maryland)
• Theory of Computation (St. Mary's College of Maryland)
• VeriLab

POLITICS

The following political problems harassed me in my short political involvment as member of Petre Roman Government 2:

• Educational Reform: my unsuccessful fight with the conservative reforme of the Romanian society in 1990-91
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CIVIC

My civic involvement is a sequel of my short politic adventure. Resulted some sporadic actions and opinions referring to the (too) perennial Romanian problems:

• How to make the most appropriate distinction between instruction, training and education in the Romanian educational policy. See an uneducated opinion in: "Invatamantul la orizontul 2020" published in Romania 2020, Ed. Compres, 1998.
• Do we expect the professional ethos to trigger improvement in our society? A preliminary answer in the short inaugural statement drafted as board member of IPID (Institutul de Proiecte pentru Inovatie si Dezvoltare): "Dezvoltare Integrativa & Ethos Profesional"
• In order to increase the chance of the young inventors to promote their ideas I co-initiated and I'm supporting I-CUBE as member in the advisory board.
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