My highschool math teacher, Mrs. Fimia Barsan, once told me that I would become a teacher. I still don't have a clue why she said that. I can remember however that I strongly disagreed with her. Just like every teen-ager bit by the "computer bug", I wanted to become nothing less than a computer professional. And I pursued this dream of mine untill I first was asked to teach. That was when I realized that I wanted to teach. I still love to write software and to do what I would call research, but teaching is what I enjoy most. I may not be a good teacher. I may not ever become one. But loving what I do should help a lot...

Since 1984 I have taught undergraduate and graduate level courses at "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj, Romania and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA and professional courses at ICI Bucharest, Romania, ITC Cluj, Romania and the Continuing Education Center at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Courses taught at WPI:

• CS504: Analysis of Algorithms and Systems (graduate)
• CS507: Data Structures and Analysis of ALgorithms (graduate)

In Term D of academic year 1997/98 I will teach:

• CS2005: Techniques of Programming (undergraduate)