Nabil Ali
{{Short description|Egyptian scientist and intellectual}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Nabil Ali
| native_name = Nabil Ali Mohammed Abd Al Azeez
| birth_date = {{birth date|1938|1|03||df=y}}
| death_date = 27 January 2016 (age 78)
| nationality = Egyptian
| education = Cairo University
}}
Nabil Ali Mohammed Abd AL Azeez (Arabic:نبيل علي) (3 January 1938 – 27 January 2016){{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=^The death of the Egyptian software scientist "Nabil Ali Abdel Aziz," the developer of the Sukhoi plane, Al-Ahram Newspaper. Copy reserved September 23, 2017 on the Wayback Machine website.|url=http://www.ahram.org.eg/NewsQ/472086.aspx|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923145012/http://www.ahram.org.eg/NewsQ/472086.aspx|archive-date=23 September 2017|website=}} was an Egyptian scientist, writer, and intellectual who worked in the field of natural language processing and computational linguistics. Ali is considered a pioneer of Arabic language computing, making significant innovations in early computational linguistics.
Education and career
Ali earned a bachelor's degree in Aeronautical Engineering in 1960, and a master's degree in 1967. In 1971, he earned a PhD in Aeronautics. From 1961 to 1972 Ali worked as an engineering officer in the Egyptian Air Force, specializing in maintenance and training.{{Cite web|date=3 January 2020|title=Google Honors Pioneering Egyptian Computational Linguist Nabil Ali Mohamed|url=https://egyptianstreets.com/2020/01/03/google-honors-pioneering-egyptian-computational-linguist-nabil-ali-mohamed/|access-date=7 March 2021|website=Egyptian Streets|language=en-US}}
In 1972, he shifted focus to computing, and from 1972 to 1977 he worked as a computer manager at Egyptair. While in this position, Ali introduced the first automated reservation system for airlines in the Arab world. He later held various computing positions in Egypt, Kuwait, Europe, Canada and the US.
Ali started working for Sakhr Software, an Arabic language technology company, in 1983. From 1985 to 1999, he was vice president of Sakhr's council for Research and Development. As a director of the Multilingual Advanced Systems Foundation and project manager at the Egyptian National Company for Scientific and Technical Information, Ali did extensive research on information culture and artificial intelligence relating to the Arabic language.
Over the course of his career, Ali developed more than 20 educational programs relating to computational linguistics. He developed the first Arabic lexical database and the first knowledge base for Arabic poetry, as well as many other pieces of Arabic language software.
Awards
- 1994: General Book Authority Award for Best Book (in the field of future studies).{{citation needed|date=March 2024}}
- 2003: General Book Authority Award for Best Culture Book (in the field of "Challenges of the Information Age").{{Cite web|date=3 January 2020|title=Google celebrates Egyptian Arabic language computing pioneer Nabil Ali's birthday|url=https://egyptindependent.com/google-celebrates-egyptian-arabic-language-computing-pioneer-nabil-alis-birthday/|access-date=7 March 2021|website=Egypt Independent|language=en-US}}
- 2007: General Book Authority "Innovation in Information Technology" Award.
- 2012: King Faisal International Award, with Professor Ali Helmy Mousa, in the field of computer processing of the Arabic Language.{{Cite web|title=Winners of King Faisal International Prize for 2012 Announced {{!}} The Embassy of The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia|url=https://www.saudiembassy.net/news/winners-king-faisal-international-prize-2012-announced|access-date=7 March 2021|website=www.saudiembassy.net}}
Works
- Arabic Language and Computer (Research study), Dar Localization, 1988.
- Al Arab and the Information Age, Knowledge World Series No. 184, April 1994.
- Arab Culture and the Information Age: A Vision for the Future of Arab Culture Discourse, World of Knowledge Series, No. 265 January 2001.
- The Digital Gap: an Arab Vision for a Knowledge Society (in partnership with Dr. Nadia Hegazy), World of Knowledge Series, No. 318 August 2005.{{Cite book|last1=Shirazi|first1=Farid|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KWqkBgAAQBAJ&q=nabil+ali+mohamed%2CThe+digital+gap%3A+an+Arab+vision+for+a+knowledge+society&pg=PA197|title=Business Review: Advanced Applications|last2=Ravindran|first2=Anton|date=11 September 2013|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1-4438-5269-2|language=en}}
- The Arab Mind and the Knowledge Society: Manifestations of the Crisis and Suggestions for Solutions, Part 1, The World of Knowledge Series, No. 369, November 2009.{{Cite journal|last1=El-Eqapy|first1=Ahmed Hashim|last2=Al asadi|first2=Daood Salim Resen|date=19 November 2020|title=Epistemology and Creativity in Architecture|journal=IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering|volume=928|issue=2|pages=022034|doi=10.1088/1757-899X/928/2/022034|bibcode=2020MS&E..928b2034H|issn=1757-899X|doi-access=free}}
- The Arab Mind and the Knowledge Society: Manifestations of the Crisis and Suggestions for Solutions, Part 2, The World of Knowledge Series, No. 370, December 2009.{{Cite journal|last=Al asad|first=Daood Salim Resen Al asad|title=Epistemology and Creativity in Architecture|journal=IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering|year=2020|volume=928|issue=2|page=022034|doi=10.1088/1757-899X/928/2/022034|bibcode=2020MS&E..928b2034H|doi-access=free}}
Tribute
On 3 January 2020, Google Doodle celebrated Nabil Ali Mohamed's 82nd Birthday.{{Citation |title=Nabil Ali Mohamed's 82nd Birthday |url=http://www.google.com/logos/doodles/2020/nabil-ali-mohameds-82nd-birthday-6753651837108252-2xa.gif |language=en |access-date=2023-01-02}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100710192214/http://www.aljazeera.net/channel/archive/archive?ArchiveId=89569 Arab Sites and Their Place in the Era of Information Culture] – Nabil Ali, Expert in Information Technology and Computational Linguistics, Without Borders Program, 23 March 2001.
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Category:Cairo University alumni
Category:Egyptian male writers
Category:Place of birth missing
Category:21st-century Egyptian writers
Category:Computational linguistics researchers