Mohammed Al-Sharekh Explained

Mohammed Al-Sharekh
Native Name Lang:ar
Birth Place:Kuwait City, Kuwait
Other Names:Abu Fahd
Children:4, including Fahad and Alanoud
Occupation:Businessperson, writer
Years Active:1969–2024
Known For:MSX Sakhr

Mohammed Al-Sharekh (Arabic: محمد الشارخ; 1942 – 6 March 2024) was a Kuwaiti businessman and author, who was the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Sakhr Software Company. Through Sakhr, he introduced the first Arabic language operating system into computers.

Background

Al-Sharekh was born in Kuwait in 1942.[1] He earned his bachelor's degree in economics and political science from Cairo University in 1965,[2] and his master's degree in development economics in 1968 from Williams College in Massachusetts, United States.[3]

Al-Sharekh died on 6 March 2024, at the age of 81.[4] [5] [6]

Career

Al-Sharekh served as the Deputy Director-General for the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development from 1969 to 1973, as a representative of Kuwait and Arab Group of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (I.B.R.D), Washington D.C. from 1973 to 1975 and co-founded and chaired the Board of Directors of the Industrial Bank of Kuwait,[7] he also served as Vice Chairman of the Association of Arab Economists.[8] In 1980, he founded AlAlamiah Group with headquarters in Kuwait and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and established Sakhr Software Company as a project to introduce the Arabic language into computers in 1982. Upon that, they worked on the research and development of Arabic NLP (Natural Language Processing) which led to the development of the Arabic OCR, Arabic machine translation, and Arabic automatic speech recognition.[9] In 1997, Al-Sharekh founded Book in a Newspaper project in collaboration with UNESCO. In 1987, he was one of the financiers of the Center for Arab Unity Studies and the Arab Organization for Translation, and the Institut du Monde Arabe in 1987.[10] Al-Sharekh developed the first Quran computer software, in addition to the nine Hadith books software in English,[11] the Islamic Information Archive,[12] OCR in 1994, Arabic Text to Speech in 1998, Machine translation from and into Arabic in 2002,[13] [14] automatic speech translation in 2010[15] [16] and developing more than 90 educational and coding programs for the Arab youth.

Sakhr Software Company

In 1982, Al-Sharekh established Sakhr Software Company as a Kuwaiti subsidiary of AlAlamiah Group, which moved its headquarters to Cairo during the invasion of Kuwait in 1990.[17] The company developed a new generation of Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques that were used in the development of automated morphology and automatic diacritizer which took over 10 years for completion.[18] The company obtained three patents from the USPTO in the field of Arabic language for automatic pronunciation, automatic translation and OCR.[19] [20] [21]

Contemporary Arabic Lexicon

Contemporary Arabic Lexicon is a contemporary computerized dictionary of the Arabic language, which was released online for free in 2019, contains 125,000 meanings and structures, as well as a database amounting to 35,000 synonyms and antonyms. The website also includes three dictionaries which are Al-Qāmus al-Muḥīṭ, Taj al-Arus and Lisān al-ʿArab.[22] [23]

AlSharekh Archives

The archive consists of 250 magazines with 13,000 issues that were issued from the late 19th century until 2010.[24] It also includes more than 250,000 articles of various topics by 20,000 writers from Arab and non-Arab countries.[10] [25] [26]

Patents

During his tenure, Sakhr Software Company obtained three patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office:

Achievements and awards

Private holdings

Al-Sharekh had many private holdings that consisted of paintings from Arabian and Egyptian art by several well-known Arab and non-Arab artists; according to the Kuwaiti newspaper, Al-Jarida, his art collection is sufficient to establish a private museum.[34] [35] [36]

Published works

In 1968, Al-Sharekh published his first work, "Qais and Laila", in the avant-garde 1960s magazine Gallery[37] and had three published short stories, Ten Stories published in 2006, Al-Saha published in 2012, and Secrets published in 2017, and a novel entitled The Family published in 2018.[38]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: الصفحة الرئيسية .
  2. Web site: "صخر"... علامة التقنية العربية تعود للحاضر بتكريم عالمي. 28 September 2021. الشرق الأوسط. ar.
  3. Web site: "الشارخ" التكنولوجي العربي الذي لا يعرفه أحد. 28 September 2021. CNBC. ar.
  4. https://m.al-sharq.com/article/06/03/2024/%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AE-%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%84-%D9%85%D9%86-%D8%A3%D8%AF%D8%AE%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%89-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B1 وفاة الكويتي محمد الشارخ أول من أدخل اللغة العربية إلى الكمبيوتر
  5. News: Joudah . Ghadi . Arabic software pioneer Mohammed Al-Sharekh dies . 9 March 2024 . Arab News . 7 March 2024 . en.
  6. News: Noted Kuwaiti entrepreneur and author Mohamed al-Sharekh passes away . 9 March 2024 . . 6 March 2024 . en.
  7. Web site: سمير عطا الله – قصص محمد الشارخ. 28 September 2021. الشرق الأوسط. ar.
  8. Web site: 2 March 2021. محمد بن عبد الرحمان الشارخ.... تعرف على الكويتي الفائز بجائزة الملك فيصل المرموقة. 28 September 2021. جريدة برواز الإلكترونية. ar.
  9. Web site: King Faisal Prize Mr. Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al-Sharekh. 28 September 2021. en-US.
  10. Web site: محمد الشارخ.. العقل الذي كشف أسرار الكونية أمام اللغة العربية مجلة الفيصل. 28 September 2021. ar.
  11. Web site: محمد الشارخ المواطن الكويتي الذي أجبر الكمبيوتر على التحدث بلغتنا ضعف تدريس اللغة العربية يجعلها صعبة على الطلبة. 28 September 2021. alanba.com.kw. ar.
  12. Web site: 25 May 2021. "أرشيف الشارخ" للمجلات الأدبية والثقافية العربية في حلة جديدة. 28 September 2021. MEO. ar.
  13. Web site: تقديراً لانجازاته في مجال صناعة البرامج العربية، محمد الشارخ يفوز بجائزة «صاحب الرؤية الالكترونية» للعام 2002. 12 September 2021. www.albayan.ae. 17 October 2002 . ar.
  14. Web site: Al-jazirah. 12 September 2021. www.al-jazirah.com.
  15. News: أعيدوا لنا الشارخ. alqabas.
  16. Web site: 3 September 2014. MENAFN – Middle East North Africa . Financial Network. 12 September 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20140903131525/http://www.menafn.com/arabic/qn_print.asp?StoryID=110147&subl=true. 3 September 2014.
  17. News: Sakhr launches Arabic ASR 4.0 speech recognition engine.
  18. News: شركة صخر الكويتية: أنجزنا المعجم الحديث وسنطلقه في يناير المقبل.
  19. Arabic handwriting recognition using feature matching. US. 7142715. 2006-11-28. Sakhr Software Company. Fahmy. Hesham Osman Mahmoud. Elrayan. Samah Mohamed.
  20. Method and system for theme-based word sense ambiguity reduction. US. 7184948. 2007-02-27. Sakhr Software Company. Chalabi. Achraf.
  21. Determining a compact model to transcribe the Arabic language acoustically in a well defined basic phonetic study. US. 7107215. 2006-09-12. Sakhr Software Company. Ghali. Mikhail E..
  22. Web site: "صخر" تطرح المعجم الحديث في يناير المقبل. 28 September 2021. www.aljarida.com. 19 December 2019 . ar.
  23. Web site: المدني. بقلم: د عبدالله. محمد الشارخ.. رائد تعريب الحوسبة. 28 September 2021. www.albayan.ae. 14 September 2019 . ar.
  24. Web site: مجلات العقود الخوالي.. متاحة للباحثين. 28 September 2021. arb.majalla.com. ar.
  25. Web site: 30 July 2018. أرشيف المجلات الثقافية العربية.. كنز رقمي لثروة معرفية ورقية. 28 September 2021. العين الإخبارية. ar.
  26. Web site: حصاد : الشارخ يطلق نسخة جديدة من "أرشيف المجلات الثقافية والأدبية". 28 September 2021. www.aljarida.com. 13 January 2020 . ar.
  27. Web site: بالفيديو الفائزون بـ التقديرية والتشجيعية جائزة الدولة تقدير لعطاءاتنا. 28 September 2021. alanba.com.kw. ar.
  28. News: Sakhr wins UN Award for accessibility software.
  29. Web site: مؤسس شركة صخر ورئيس مجلس إدارتها يتسلم جائزة القمة العالمية لمجتمع المعلومات. 28 September 2021. archive.aawsat.com.
  30. Web site: Mohammed Al-Sharekh receives major award at Arab Technology Awards . AME Info: Middle East & Gulf News (AMEinfo.com) . 9 March 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121006175625/http://www.ameinfo.com/69500.html . 6 October 2012 . web.archive.org . 8 October 2005 . dead.
  31. Web site: بعد فوز شركة صخر بجائزة القمة العالمية لمجتمع المعلومات الشارخ يفوز بجائزة تقديرية ضمن جوائز التقنية العربية. 28 September 2021. جريدة القبس. 8 October 2005.
  32. Web site: محمد الشارخ يتسلم جائزة الرواد من مؤسسة الفكر العربي. 28 September 2021. صحيفة الوسط البحرينية. ar.
  33. Web site: 4 March 2016. محمد الشارخ مؤسس شركة صخر العالمية يفوز بجائزة "صاحب الرؤية الإلكترونية" للعام 2002. live. 28 September 2021. alriyadh.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304124851/http://www.alriyadh.com/Contents/22-10-2002/RiyadhNet/News_1290.php. 4 March 2016.
  34. News: مجموعة الشارخ الفنية.
  35. Web site: مجلة العربي تحتفي بالمرأة المبدعة. 28 September 2021. www.aljarida.com. 3 July 2017 . ar.
  36. Web site: عن محمد الشارخ الظالم نفسه. 28 September 2021. www.aljarida.com. 30 August 2018 . ar.
  37. Web site: الشارخ يجنح إلى المفارقة والمفاجأة في أسرار وقصص أخرى. 28 September 2021. aljarida.com. 5 September 2016 .
  38. Web site: أسرار وقصص أخرى مجموعة قصصية جديدة للكاتب محمد الشارخ. 28 September 2021. alanba.com.kw. ar.

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