Wushour Silamu
{{Short description|Chinese computer scientist}}
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| birth_place = Ili City, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China
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| fields = Computer science
| workplaces = Xinjiang University
| alma_mater = Xinjiang University
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Wushour Silamu or Wushour Slamu ({{Langx|ug|ھۇشۇر ئىسلام|translit=Hushur Islam, Ⱨuxur Islam}}; {{zh|s=吾守尔·斯拉木|t=吾守爾·斯拉木|p=Wúshǒu'ěr Sīlāmù}}; born 15 October 1941), is a Chinese computer scientist of Uyghur ethnicity.{{Cite web|title=吾守尔·斯拉木|trans-title=Wushour Silamu|url=http://ysg.ckcest.cn/html/details/3943/baseInfo/grxx_jbxx/default.html|publisher=Chinese Academy of Engineering|language=Chinese|accessdate=30 September 2018}} He is a professor at Xinjiang University in Ürümqi and specializes in multilingual computing, especially with reference to the Uyghur language and other minority languages of Xinjiang.
Biography
Wushour was born in Yining, Xinjiang in 1941 and graduated from the Department of Physics at Xinjiang University in June 1964. He has held positions at Xinjiang University as vice-chair of the Department of Electronic Engineering and chair of the Department of Computing and is currently director of the Xinjiang Multilingual Information Processing Key Laboratory ({{zh|c=新疆多语种信息处理重点实验室|p=Xīnjiāng Duōyǔchóng Xìnxī Chǔlǐ Zhòngdiǎn Shíyànshì}}).
File:Wushour Silamu and Michael Everson.jpg toasting each other at a meeting of WG2 in Matsue, Japan in October 2015]]
Wushour is an expert member of the WG2 working group of the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2 subcommittee for coded character sets and has attended international meetings of the working group between 1994 and 2015.{{Cite web|title=WG2 attendance log|url=https://www.unicode.org/wg2/docs/AttendanceLog.xls|accessdate=30 September 2018}} He has authored a number of proposals to encode characters required for Uyghur Arabic alphabet in the Unicode Standard, as well as a proposal to encode the Old Turkic script.{{Cite web|title=Proposal for encoding the Old Turkic script in the SMP of the UCS|url=http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3357.pdf|date=25 January 2008}}
In 2011, Wushour was elected as the first Uyghur academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).
Wushour was elected as a Xinjiang delegate to the 12th National People's Congress which was convened from 2013 to 2018.
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External links
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- [http://www.xju.edu.cn/info/1116/1434.htm Xinjiang University page for Wushour Silamu]
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