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COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Bassel Khartabil

1981 - 2015

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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 and raised in Syria, where he specialized in open source software development. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bassel Khartabil has received more than 244,878 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Bassel Khartabil is the 181st most popular computer scientist (down from 175th in 2019), the 168th most popular biography from Syria (down from 149th in 2019) and the most popular Syrian Computer Scientist.

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  • 240k

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  • 37.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Bassel Khartabil ranks 181 out of 201Before him are Jon Hall, Geir Ivarsøy, Kathleen Booth, Erich Gamma, Theo de Raadt, and Phil Katz. After him are Douglas Crockford, Luis von Ahn, Sophie Wilson, Hans Reiser, Werner Koch, and Chieko Asakawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1981, Bassel Khartabil ranks 307Before him are Antonio López, Brandon Flowers, José Ron, Siarhei Rutenka, Alice Rohrwacher, and Sara Tommasi. After him are Sonya Yoncheva, Seth Gabel, Dawn Olivieri, Katharine Isabelle, Jarkko Nieminen, and Gen Hoshino. Among people deceased in 2015, Bassel Khartabil ranks 454Before him are Andraé Crouch, Maria Radner, Amanda Peterson, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, Dean Potter, and Jonathan Crombie. After him are Wilfred Agbonavbare, Oles Buzina, Walter Browne, Charles Correa, Wolfram Wuttke, and Mikhail Burtsev.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Bassel Khartabil ranks 168 out of 181Before him are Omar Ibrahim Ghalawanji (1954), Randa Kassis (1970), Ghada Shouaa (1972), Yasser Seirawan (1960), Ignatius Aphrem II (1965), and Mahmoud Dahoud (1996). After him are Razan Zaitouneh (1977), Sanharib Malki (1984), Yusra Mardini (1998), Omar Kharbin (1994), Firas Al-Khatib (1983), and Hevrin Khalaf (1984).

Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Syria

Among computer scientists born in Syria, Bassel Khartabil ranks 1