Roozbeh Pournader
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Born |
April 1980 Tehran, Iran |
Residence | California, United States |
Nationality | Iranian-American |
Occupation | Founder of Persian Wikipedia |
Roozbeh Pournader[1] (Persian: روزبه پورنادر, Persian pronunciation: [ɾuːz'be puːɾ'nɑːdeɾ]) (born April 1980) is an Iranian-American free software activist.[2][3][4][5] After the establishment of the Persian Wikipedia, he became the first system operator (sysop) and administrator of the project.[6] He was a major assistant, participant and co-founder of the Persian Wikipedia.[7]
He was a technical manager at Sharif Linux Project at Sharif University of Technology, and formerly served as a technical manager at FarsiTeX.[8][9]
He finally moved to California, U.S., served at HighTech Passport, Ltd, and was then hired by Google.[10]
Education
Pournader was born in Tehran, Iran, where he obtained his high school diploma in 1996 from Allameh Helli High Schools. He graduated from Sharif University of Technology in the field of computer engineering.[11]
Since 2011, Pournader has worked as an Internationalization Engineer at Google, focusing on text encoding and rendering, fonts, and bidirectional text. He joined the Android Text team in late 2014.
Activities
In 2003, Pournader was appointed to provide a report for the United Nations Development Programme about computer development and computer localization in Afghanistan.[12]
Honors
- 1995 - silver medal of International Olympiad in Informatics
- 1996 - golden medal of International Olympiad in Informatics
- 2009 - bulldog award of Unicode Consortium[13][14][15][16]
See also
External links
References
- ↑ Aftab web magazine (in Persian)
- ↑ «Word War III» (English).
- ↑ Aftab web magazine (in Persian)
- ↑ Internet magazine Cappuccino (in Persian) Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ log of first edition of Persian Wikipedia
- ↑ روزشمار ویکیپدیای فارسی Timeline of Persian Wikipedia (in Persian)
- ↑ leading persons of FarsiTex (in Persian)
- ↑ introducing page of UniCode spokespersons at Santa Clara
- ↑ Official newspaper of Iran. No. 17080. Saturday, 26 Mehr 1382-2003
- ↑ archive.org, Unicode Conference via archive.org
- ↑ «Introduction to Wikipedia».
- ↑ Computer Locale Requirements for Afghanistan
- ↑ Glorification ceremony for crew who contributed to Linux Persianization program (in Persian)
- ↑ Pan Localization
- ↑ Results for 1995 International Olympiad in Informatics، Results for 1994 International Olympiad in Informatics، 2001 ACM results - official web-page of Sharif University of Technology (in Persian)
- ↑ UniCode Consortium main website-bulldog award