Mehedi Hasan Khan
Mehedi Hasan Khan is a Bangladeshi physician and software developer.[1][2] He is known for inventing free and open source Bengali keyboard Avro in 2003.[1]
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]
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][3] 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.[4][2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Exploring the base of Bangla in computers". The Daily Star. http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/05/12/d405121601117.htm.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 (in bn)Prothom Alo. https://www.prothomalo.com/special-supplement/article/1564007/%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B6.
- ↑ Ahmed, Kazi Fahim (2006-03-10). (in Bengali)Daily Prothom Alo.
- ↑ "Error: no
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specified when using {{Cite web}}" (in bn). https://www.omicronlab.com/blog/announcement/%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A8-%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%9B%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%87-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%9B%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%85%E0%A6%AD%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0/.