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]
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মেহেদী হাসান খান | |
Born | July 23, 1986 |
Nationality | Bangladeshi |
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Alma mater | Mymensingh Medical College |
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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
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]
References
- Hammadi, Saad Bin Fazle. "Exploring the base of Bangla in computers". The Daily Star.
- ইন্টারনেটে বাংলার মুক্ত আকাশ. Prothom Alo (in Bengali).
- Ahamed, Syeed (2010-04-28). "An amazing journey from Shahid Lipi to Avro". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
- "Dr. Mehdi Hasan In India!". Niponwave. 2009-10-16. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
- Diya, Sabhanaz Rashid. "The Fight Over Fonts". Star Weekend Magazine. The Daily Star. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
- Chowdhury, Syed Tashfin. "Updated Avro Keyboard, Bangaliana Dictionary". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
- জনপ্রিয় বাংলা টাইপ সফটওয়্যার 'অভ্র' আবিষ্কার করেও প্রচারের আড়ালে রয়ে গেলেন এই তরুণ ডাক্তার. TheWall. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
- Karim, Naimul. "Mehdi Hasan Khan: Creator of the Avro Software". 21 Anniversary Supplement. The Daily Star. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
- Ahmed, Kazi Fahim (2006-03-10). ইউনিকোড ভিত্তিক অভ্র কি-বোর্ড. Daily Prothom Alo (in Bengali).
- "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)
- 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.
- Hossain, Naser Imran. "The Great Technological Escape". RisingStars. The Daily Star. Retrieved 2019-06-10.