Gheorghe M. Stefan

Professor
Department of Electronic Devices, Circuits and Architectures (Dispozitive, Circuite si Arhitecturi Electronice - DCAE)
Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications & Information Technology
Politehnica University of Bucharest, ROMANIA





Email: gheorghe.stefan@upb.ro
Skype name: gheorghe.stefan (located in Nashua, US)

Phone:
+4021 402 4814 (Office, RO)
+4021 796 7773 (Bucharest)
+4024 428 0677 (Valenii de Munte)
+4077 513 4988 (mobile, Whatsapp)
978 743 6477 (mobile US)
603-897.8489 (office, US)

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.

"Under the current funding regime, is it possible to obtain support for long-term basic research with little apparent prospect of practical applications? ... Now only safe, incremental "normal science" (Thomas Kuhn) is funded and published, not paradigm shifts. Creativity is slaughtered. ... We are clearly going in the wrong direction now in some societies where creativity is micromanaged by gigantic bureaucracies."

Gregory Chaitin: Proving Darwin. Making Biology Mathematical, Vintage Books, New York, 2012.

"In between writing grant proposals describing what I intend to do, and writing reports about what I have done, there in no time left to actually do anything!"

Mario Livio: The Equation That Could't Be Solved. How mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2005.

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

• Orto-Computation?
• Composition is the only independent rule in Kleene's model of partial recursive functions
• Accelerating Molecular Dynamics Computation
• Integral Parallel Computation
• Spectral Music
• 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:

• Volume Ethos - Pathos - Logos.
  
• Volume 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, unpublished yet).
• Essays/Eseuri
• Noema21_3
• Architecture and Structure in Open and Intro-Open Systems

TEACHING

• Functional Electronics
• Digital Integrated Circuits
• Reconfigurable Computing
• Self_Organizing Systems(in Politehnica University of Bucharest)
• Advanced Digital Systems (Infineon Master in Politehnica University of Bucharest)


• Computer Architecture (in Politehnica University of Bucharest, Brasov University, St. Mary's College of Maryland University, Rivier University)
• Theory of Computation (St. Mary's College of Maryland of Maryland University)
• Fred Popovici, Gheorghe M. Stefan: Strategii neliniare in compozitia muzicala
• 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
• ...

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:

• Umanismul sub presiunea a doua exponentiale. (Humanism under the pressure of two exponentials) .
• Closing remarks of the open session of the Commission for Microsystems Science and Technology from June 3, 2022 (see at min 20).
• Poate fi info-spatiul o noua Agora? (Can the info-space be a new Agora?)
• Gheorghe M. Stefan, Razvan Mihai : "Driven Distributed Consensus for an Integrated Globalized World", in ROMJIST, Volume 21, Number 2, 2018, pp. 114-128.
• iDemocracy project (paper, power point) is going now toward iConsensus project (the first document, prepared with Mihai Spariosu, is comming soon. Meantime see this: SYNC).
• 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.
• ...