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 34th most number of Computer Scientists behind Taiwan, and Guatemala.
Top 2
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 51.93, Bassel Khartabil is the most famous Syrian Computer Scientist. His biography has been translated into 38 different languages on wikipedia.
Bassel Khartabil (Arabic: باسل خرطبيل; 22 May 1981 – 3 October 2015), also known as Bassel Safadi (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 say 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 served as project lead and public affiliate for Creative Commons Syria, and contributed to Mozilla Firefox, Wikipedia, and Openclipart. 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, with real time visualization using 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.
2. Dina Katabi (b. 1970)
With an HPI of 35.10, Dina Katabi is the 2nd most famous Syrian Computer Scientist. Her biography has been translated into 14 different languages.
Dina Katabi (Arabic: دينا قَتابي) is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and the director of the MIT Wireless Center. She was designated as one of the world’s most influential women engineers by Forbes magazine.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Syrian computer scientists born between 1970 and 1981. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Syrian computer scientists include Dina Katabi. The most famous deceased Syrian computer scientists include Bassel Khartabil. As of April 2024, 1 new Syrian computer scientists have been added to Pantheon including Dina Katabi.
