"Aurel Vlaicu" University
of Arad

ICNcT 2011

We are honoured to invite you to attend to the 15th International Conference of Nonconventional Technologies (ICNcT 2011). The Conference will be held in Arad, University Aurel Vlaicu of Arad, (Romania), 4-5 November 2011, and it is organized by the Romanian Association for Nonconventional Technologies (ARTN/RANcT), the POLITEHNICA University of Timişoara, Mechanical Engineering Faculty, Mechanical Technology Chair, and the, University Aurel Vlaicu of Arad, Engineering Faculty, Machine Manufacturing Technology Department, with the support of MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, RESEARCH, YOUTH AND SPORTS, National Authority for Scientific Research.

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"Aurel Vlaicu" University is a member in the European University Continuing Education Network (EUCEN)

Conferences organized by EUCEN in 2010:

1. "From Rhetoric to reality. The European Universities' Charter on LLL two years after", 40th EUCEN Conference, 18-20 November, 2011, Lille, France.

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Celebrating 90th birthday of Dr.H.C. Lotfi A. Zadeh at “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad

 Lotfi A. Zadeh, born on February 4, 1921, is a famous mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, and a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, United State of America. He is father of fuzzy sets, fuzzy logic and computing with words. His paper entitled “Fuzzy sets” (1965) is cited over 26,000 time in many prestigious journals. He is a Doctor Honoris Causa of “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad (2003) and a collaborator of professors Valentina Bălaş and Ioan Dziţac from “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad.

Dear Professor Zadeh,

Celebrating the 90th birthday, we wish you a good health, long life, and new interesting achievements!

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Writing as a Form of Freedom and Happiness. Celebrating the 60th birthday of Gheorghe Păun

By G. Ciobanu

Essentially writing is form of thinking on paper, and a way of learning. According to Winston Churchill, writing a book is an adventure. "To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public." On the other hand, writing could be a form of freedom by escaping the madness  of a period, and reducing the anxiety. In many situations the authors write to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
Gheorghe Păun is an example of a person affirming his own existence by writing. He is a prolific writer with a huge number of papers: tens of scientific books, hundreds of articles, several novels, poems, and books on games. A list of his scientific publications is posted at
http://www.imar.ro/~gpaun/papers.php [2], while his books are listed at http://www.imar.ro/~gpaun/books.php [1] His way of distributing information is not by speaking, but by writing.
Gheorghe Păun did not like very much to teach in universities. He preferred a form of "teaching by researching", combining ideas with nice metaphors and distributing his knowledge in articles and books. In this way he wrote several papers having a high impact in the scientific community.
His seminal paper "Computing with membranes" published in Journal of Computers and System Sciences in 2000 and his fundamental book on computation theory "Membrane Computing" (Springer, 2003) has over 1,000 citations [6] (and his author was recognized as an "ISI highly
cited researcher" [5]). He has defined new branches, new theories. The field of membrane computing was initiated by Gheorghe Păun as a branch of natural computing [3]; P systems are inspired by the hierarchical membrane structure of eukaryotic cells [4]. An impressive handbook
of membrane computing was published recently (2010) by Oxford University Press....

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“I am Mihai Şucan, a second year student pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree at the Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad.

I have strong experience in web development, both client-side (JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, SVG, etc.) and server-side (PHP, mySQL, etc.). I have written articles for Opera Software. I contributed with feedback to the HTML5, Web Forms 2 and XBL 2 specifications - feedback which prompted the editors to make changes. Additionally, I am experienced in working with CVS, SVN and Git - there is no problem for me to work with any version control system. Last year I participated in the GSoC program where I successfully completed a project for Moodle. The experience of working with the open source community was really great and I loved it.”  [...]

“Since my previous blog post I did some polishing to the Moodle 2.0 integration. Dan Poltawski from the Moodle community has provided his valuable feedback. He suggested I switch the parsing of the data URL to a regular expression and that I warn users before submitting a form while editing an image with unsaved changes. I made both of these changes and now I am looking forward for more feedback.”

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