Victor Toma (April 4, 1922 - November 26, 2008) was a Romanian engineer and scientist, known to be the creator of the first Romanian computer CIFA 1 in 1957 at the IFA - Institute of Atomic Physics. [1] At the same institute he built CIFA 2, CIFA 3 CIFA 4 and CET 500 and at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1964 the computer VITOSHA similar with CIFA 3. [2] Since 1968 to his retirement he was head of laboratory in the Institute of computer engineering ITC Bucharest. [3] He was made an honorary member of the Romanian Academy in 1993.
Gheorghe Dumitru Mureșan, also known as "Ghiță", is a Romanian former professional basketball player. At 7 feet 7 inches (2.31 m), he is tied with Manute Bol for the tallest player ever to have played in the NBA.
Florian Pittiș was a Romanian stage and television actor, theatre director, folk music singer, and radio producer.
The University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca (USAMVCN) is a university in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. With around 6,000 students, the university offers 21 undergraduate programs; all are available in Romanian, 2 in French and 1 in English. Additionally, the university offers 23 Master programs.
Adrian Severin is a Romanian politician and former Member of the European Parliament.
Costică Toma was a Romanian international football goalkeeper and later manager.
Ovidius University of Constanța is a public higher education institution in Constanța, Romania founded in 1961 as a Pedagogical Institute and transformed into a comprehensive university in 1990. As the Charter of the university states, the Pedagogical Institute was founded by Order of the Ministry of Education no. 654 of 1961, comprising four faculties. By State Council Decree no. 209 of 1977 the institute became a Higher Education Institute and reorganized. By Government Decision 209 of 1990 the institute became a university and, a year later, by Order of the Ministry of Education and Science no. 4894 of 1991, the university was given the present name.
Cristache Gheorghiu is a Romanian writer, painter, mechanical engineer and computer scientist.
Science and technology in Romania is well developed, with the presence of several universities and research institutes, and has a distinguished tradition going back more than a century. Romania was ranked 46th in the Global Innovation Index in 2020, up from 50th in 2019.
Politehnica University of Timișoara is a public university in Timișoara. Founded in 1920, it is one of the largest technical universities in Central and Eastern Europe. The 10 faculties of the university provide study programs for about 13,000 students. In 2011, Politehnica University of Timișoara was classified as an advanced research and education university by the Ministry of Education. The university is a founding member of the Romanian Alliance of Technical Universities (ARUT).
Transilvania University of Brașov is a higher education and research institution in Brașov, Romania, which comprises 18 faculties, with a number of over 19,500 students and over 730 teaching staff members. Currently, Transilvania University of Brașov is the largest university in the centre of the country, a university that offers programmes in fields such as: mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, computers, construction, forestry, wood engineering, product design, nutrition and tourism, computer science, mathematics, economics, medicine, pedagogy, music, literature and linguistics, law, sociology and social work, psychology. There are 100 undergraduate programmes in the University: 83 full-time study programmes, 6 part-time study programmes and 11 distance learning programmes, 74 master's degree study programmes and 18 doctoral fields.
Horia Hulubei was a Romanian nuclear physicist, known for his contributions to the development of X-ray spectroscopy.
Dan Roman is an entrepreneur, investor and IT professional with focus on emerging markets. In 1990, after the termination of the communist era in Romania, he was a pioneer in establishing one of the first private companies in the country, RBS Ltd., that became the local market leader. Roman managed RBS as CEO and owner until 1995, when he sold the company to IBM.
Călin Georgescu is a Romanian senior expert in sustainable development, with an acknowledged recognition in the field, following 17 years of service in the environmental area in the United Nations system. Georgescu was appointed the executive director of the United Nations Global Sustainable Index Institute in Geneva and Vaduz for the period 2015–2016. Prior to that, he served as President of the European Research Centre for the Club of Rome (2013–2015). He is also member of the Club of Rome International in Switzerland.
The Timişoara Polytechnic Institute Electronic Computer, known as MECIPT, is the name used for a family of computers built from 1961 to 1968 at the Polytechnic University of Timișoara in Romania.
Maria-Magdalena Zaharescu is a Romanian chemist, specializing in the physical chemistry of oxide systems.
Dan Berindei was a Romanian historian. He was a titular member of the Romanian Academy from 1992 until his death.
CIFA is the acronym for "Calculatorul Institutului de Fizică Atomică".
Cătălin Bălescu is a Romanian visual artist and a university professor at the Department of Painting of The National University of Arts in Bucharest.
Victor Slăvescu was a Romanian economist and politician. He was a professor of economics at the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies and a titular member of the Romanian Academy. He also served as Finance Minister (1934–1935) and Minister of Materiel (1939–1940).