I. Childhood
Family, home, postwar Bucharest and the earliest forms of memory.
This section brings together the memoir pages of the site. To prevent the general structure from being confused with the individual pages, it is organised on two levels: first themes and subthemes, then representative episodes, people and pages.
How it can be read
- By themes and subthemes: through the indexes of life stages and cross-cutting paths.
- Chronologically: from childhood to maturity and the later reflections.
- By episodes and people: by going directly to a page about a person, place or decisive moment.
Themes and subthemes
These links describe the architecture of the Memoirs section. They lead to overview and index pages, not to individual episodes.
II. Adolescence
High school, reading, the formation of tastes and the first important choices.
III. Student years
Politehnica, mathematics, theoretical computer science and the encounters of youth.
IV. Youth (1967–1989)
The first working years, the department, the doctorate and professional maturation.
V. Emigration
The 1989 departure, Rome, waiting and the construction of a new life in Italy.
VI. Maturity
Professional work, research, the return to university and cultural encounters.
VII. My path in research
A cross-cutting path through my scientific and teaching activity.
VIII. Travels
Journeys connected with family, friends, conferences, art and returns to the past.
IX. Family and important people
Family dossiers, genealogy, friendships and portraits of those who influenced my life.
X. Reflections
Memory, time, society, education, technology and artificial intelligence.
Representative episodes, people and pages
The selection below leads directly to autonomous pages. It does not repeat the site structure, but brings forward episodes and portraits that can be read independently.
Childhood, adolescence and student years
Youth, profession and the period
Emigration and rebuilding life
- Leaving the country
- The purgatory of emigration
- First attempts to organise the new life
- Rome in waiting
- Sirio’s house
- Giovanni M. and the residence permit
- Academic adventures in Italy
- My first job in Italy
- Datamat – the call that never came
- My first professional steps
- America deferred
- The road to Brasimone
- The professor companies began to seek out
Maturity, research and culture
Family members
Friends and important people
Journeys that became memory
Representative reflections
Themes and subthemes provide the map of the section. Episodes and portraits are a reading selection; complete lists can be found in the indexes of each life stage or theme.