Tércio Pacitti


Tércio Pacitti, São Paulo, Brazil was an electronic engineer and computer scientist in Brazil.

Biography

Pacitti was born in Atibaia-SP, Brazil, son of Antônio Pacitti and Isabel de Moraes Pacitti. He graduated as aeronautical engineer from ITA, first in the class of 1952, having completed a Masters and Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley. He was a student of David A. Huffman among others at Berkeley.
Pacitti wrote several books in computer science, especially the Fortran Monitor, which from 1967 to 1987 has sold 250,000 copies in the country, and Do Fortran à Internet, retrospect of his life and information technology in the world, already in its third edition. He launched in 2006 Paradigmas do software aberto, his most recent work.
He led the introduction of information technology at the ITA, at the Air Force, at COPPE-UFRJ and at UNIRIO. He was rector of the ITA between 1982 and 1984, and established the course of Computer Engineering.
His last post in the Air Force Command, as Major-Brigadier Engineer, was the Head of the Directorate of Engineering in 1986 and 1987 season in which he also chaired the ADESG. He was president of the Council of Informatics of the State of Rio de Janeiro from 1987 to 1990. It currently belongs to the National Academy of Engineering and is scientific adviser to the presidency of Consist.
On April 24, 2019, the President of the Republic, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, signed Law No. 13,817, in which he granted the title of Patron of Information Technology of Aeronautics to Major-Brigadier Engineer Tércio Pacitti.

Awards

Decorations

Tercio Pacitti was container, among others, the following medals: