Tércio Pacitti

Tércio Pacitti (September 9, 1928 in Atibaia – June 18, 2014 in Rio de Janeiro), 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 (1961) and Ph.D. (1971) 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 (From Fortran to the Internet), retrospect of his life and information technology in the world, already in its third edition. He launched in 2006 Paradigmas do software aberto (Paradigms of open source software), 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

 * Excellence in Software Award granted by the International Centre for Software Technology (CTIS), 1996

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


 * BRA Ordem do Merito Militar Comendador.png Commander of the Order of Military Merit (Ordem do Mérito Militar)
 * Order of Naval Merit - Commander (Brazil) - ribbon bar.png Commander of the Order of Naval Merit (Ordem do Mérito Naval)
 * BRA OMFA - OMD Grande-Oficial BAR.svg Grand Officer of the Order of Merit for Defense (Ordem do Mérito da Defesa)
 * National Order of Scientific Merit - Grand Cross (Brazil) - ribbon bar.png Grand Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico) - President of the Republic of Brazil - Mar/1998.
 * Medalha do Pacificador.png Peacemaker Medal (Medalha do Pacificador) (Port Min No 791 of 28 Sep 83 / No. 41 BE, 14 Oct 83)
 * Medalha do Mérito Tamandaré.png Medal of Merit Tamandaré (Medalha Mérito Tamandaré) - Air Force
 * Ordem do Ipiranga.png Grand Officer of the Order of Ipiranga (Ordem do Ipiranga)