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Constantin Serban
Core 344
110 Frelinghuysen Rd
Piscataway, NJ 08854

(732) 445-6450 ext. 9533

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Vita

I've been born in the city of Brezoi, Romania, on the border between Transylvania and Walachia provinces, and I lived there through high school. The area is straight in the middle of the Carpathian mountains, and I guess that's how I got hooked up on hiking and skiing.
I relocated to United States in 1999, and here I met my wife Anna, to whom I got married in 2003. Our first baby, Alexander Peter has been born in May 2006.

Hobbies

In the spare time we like to hike, ski and travel. We go to New York quite often (Anna's daily commute to Federal Reserve doesn't count), mostly to watch films and off(-off)-Broadway plays. We visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art regularly, and sometimes we go to MoMA on Fridays. I bicycle on daily basis, and also play soccer weekly (in 2004 I was the captain of the Computer Science Department soccer team).

• Some pictures I took in Melbourne, Australia for the Middleware 2006 conference. Awesome place. Really!.
• We proudly announce the birth of our son, Alexander Peter Serban, on May 31, 2006. Both the mother and the baby are in an excellent shape. I can proudly testify that Alexander has very strong lungs: look for yourself here.
• Some more pictures of our son and us, taken during the past few months here.
• Check out some of the pictures from our latest trip to Quebec. La Mauricie national park was quite a sport -- a kayak and hike big gulp.
• Some of the pictures from our exquisite trip to Peru. That was an out-of-this-world experience (in a good sense, but eerie at times as well).
• Did I mention my driving spree phase?(No, I am not talking about pollution and urban sprawling.) We had our own "easy rider" experience in 2001, riding ocean-to-ocean from Oregon to New Jersey: seven days 5500 miles. Here there are few of these pictures.
• Some of the pictures from my previous life in Romania (actually during a more recent vacation there). You can see scores of my favorite pets (Scurtu (a.k.a The Shortie), Linda, and Lungu (a.k.a. The Long One)), and some extreme skiing and hiking (both in the month of June) with my family over there. Some of the pictures of my vineyard at Piatra Olt (southern Romania) at my country side home.
• If you downloaded some of the pictures above, you can try to download the HTTP server as well. It is written in Java (it took me about 2.5 hours to write), it consists of a single Java class, and it is ~10k in size (~700 lines). Yes, it has thumbnails, but no comments. And it is there, up and running, for a loooong time.
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• Check out the website of the Romanian Student Association. I was its president, one of the founding fathers :), and also the web and mailing list author. Now it is a grown up association, with more than 50 members, serving the Romanian community in and around Rutgers.
• A handy and trusted ssh client--to have while away can be found here.

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