The Most Famous
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS from Syria
This page contains a list of the greatest Syrian Computer Scientists. The pantheon dataset contains 245 Computer Scientists, 1 of which were born in Syria. This makes Syria the birth place of the 33rd most number of Computer Scientists behind Hungary, and South Africa.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Syrian Computer Scientists of all time. This list of famous Syrian Computer Scientists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Bassel Khartabil (1981 - 2015)
With an HPI of 35.03, Bassel Khartabil is the most famous Syrian Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 38 different languages on wikipedia.
Bassel Khartabil (22 May 1981 – 3 October 2015; Arabic: باسل خرطبيل), also known as Bassel Safadi (Arabic: باسل صفدي), was a Palestinian Syrian open-source software developer. He was detained without trial by the Syrian government in 2012 and was secretly executed in 2015. Human rights organizations claim that he was detained for his activities in support of freedom of expression, and the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention considered his detention to have been arbitrary. Khartabil was born in Damascus to a Palestinian father and a Syrian mother, and was raised in Syria, where he specialized in open source software development. He was chief technology officer (CTO) and co-founder of collaborative research company Aiki Lab and was CTO of Al-Aous, a publishing and research institution dedicated to archaeological sciences and arts in Syria. He has served as project lead and public affiliate for Creative Commons Syria, and has contributed to Mozilla Firefox, Wikipedia, Openclipart, Fabricatorz, and Sharism. He "is credited with opening up the Internet in Syria and vastly extending online access and knowledge to the Syrian people." His last work included an open, 3D virtual reconstruction of the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria, real time visualization, and development with Fabricatorz for the web programming framework Aiki Framework. This was later created and displayed in his honor. In 2018, the Bassel Khartabil Free Culture Fellowship was announced in Khartabil's memory. The fellowship awards $50,000 and additional support to individuals developing open culture in their communities. The fellowship was created by Creative Commons, Fabricatorz Foundation, Jimmy Wales Foundation, Mozilla, #NEWPALMYRA, and Wikimedia.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Syrian computer scientists born between 1981 and 1981. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Syrian computer scientists include Bassel Khartabil.
