Mehdi Hasan Khan

Mehdi Hasan Khan (Bengali:মেহেদী হাসান খান) is a Bangladeshi physician and software developer.[1][2] He is known for inventing free and open source Bengali keyboard Avro in 2003.[1][3][4][5][6][7]

Mehdi Hasan Khan
মেহেদী হাসান খান
Born (1986-07-23) July 23, 1986
NationalityBangladeshi
Education
Alma materMymensingh Medical College
Occupation
Known for

Early life

Khan was born in Dhaka on July 23, 1986.[2] After completing his secondary from Ideal School and College and higher secondary from Notre Dame College, Khan obtained his MBBS degree from Mymensingh Medical College in 2010.[2][8]

Avro
Main article: Avro Keyboard

Khan started developing Avro in 2003 when he was a first year student of Mymensingh Medical College. It was first published on web for free download on 26 March 2003 under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.[2][9] Initially, it was developed in Visual Basic, which was later transferred to Delphi. The Linux version of it was written in C++. Avro was further developed by M. M. Rifat-Un-Nabi, Tanbin Islam Siyam, Ryan Kamal, Shabab Mustafa and Nipon Haque from OmicronLab.[10][2][11][12]

gollark: You need to light up all the places they may spawn.
gollark: ah. Yes.
gollark: I know a bit.
gollark: Fill out some form or other.
gollark: Ours is not actually used commercially, but we needed concrete for roads in bulk and cheaply.

References
  1. Hammadi, Saad Bin Fazle. "Exploring the base of Bangla in computers". The Daily Star.
  2. ইন্টারনেটে বাংলার মুক্ত আকাশ. Prothom Alo (in Bengali).
  3. Ahamed, Syeed (2010-04-28). "An amazing journey from Shahid Lipi to Avro". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
  4. "Dr. Mehdi Hasan In India!". Niponwave. 2009-10-16. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
  5. Diya, Sabhanaz Rashid. "The Fight Over Fonts". Star Weekend Magazine. The Daily Star. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
  6. Chowdhury, Syed Tashfin. "Updated Avro Keyboard, Bangaliana Dictionary". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
  7. জনপ্রিয় বাংলা টাইপ সফটওয়্যার 'অভ্র' আবিষ্কার করেও প্রচারের আড়ালে রয়ে গেলেন এই তরুণ ডাক্তার. TheWall. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
  8. Karim, Naimul. "Mehdi Hasan Khan: Creator of the Avro Software". 21 Anniversary Supplement. The Daily Star. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
  9. Ahmed, Kazi Fahim (2006-03-10). ইউনিকোড ভিত্তিক অভ্র কি-বোর্ড. Daily Prothom Alo (in Bengali).
  10. "Archived copy" নতুন বছরেই আসছে অভ্র কিবোর্ড ৫ এর ফুল ভার্শন. OmicronLab (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 2015-05-05. Retrieved 2018-11-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. জনস্বার্থে যা করার দরকার তাই করবো: মোস্তাফা জব্বার. Channel i (in Bengali). 2019-06-10. Archived from the original on 2019-06-10. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
  12. Hossain, Naser Imran. "The Great Technological Escape". RisingStars. The Daily Star. Retrieved 2019-06-10.


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