Syed Akhter Hossain (born 1969) is a computer scientist, educator, columnist and technology consultant from

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. Currently, he is a professor and head of

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department at University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB).

Birth and education

He was born in

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on 21 January 1969.

Others activities

Hossain is a contest director of

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Dhaka Regionals 2007, 2012 and Chief Judge of National Collegiate Programming Contest in Bangladesh 2015 and Contest Director of NCPC 2014. He is also the Chief Judge of

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2015 and one of the pioneers of spreading programming education in Bangladesh by organising Computer Science Education Week and NGPC(National Girls Programming Contest). He is also an organising committee member of ICCIT (

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) at 2013, and hold the chair on 2014. He is also taking steps to enrich

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content.

Honors and awards

* Gold Medal in BSc (Honors) examination for the first place in the Faculty of Applied Sciences, Rajshahi University * Digital Innovation Award 2011 for Bangla-2-Braille Machine Translator * BASIS 2011 Abishaker Khoze Champion Award * CMO-Asia Best Professor in IT Award from Singapore, July 2012 * National ICT Award 2016 for Outstanding Contribution to the ICT Education and Technology of Bangladesh at Digital World 2016 Award Night, 21 October 2016

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