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Mustafa Akgül

Mustafa Akgül

Turkish computer scientist


Mustafa Akgül (10 May 1948 - 13 December 2017) was a Turkish computer scientist who was the key figure of the acceptance of the Internet in Turkey.[1]

Mustafa Akgül

He went to the University of Waterloo, Canada and got his PhD in Combinatorics and Optimisation.[2]

He started with the motto of "Internet is life".[3] He had many different ways to reach people in academia, in social media, and ordinary people at the street. The main problem, initially, was to raise public awareness of the Internet in Turkey.


References

  1. "Remembering Mustafa Akgül". policyreview.info. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
  2. "akgul.bilkent.edu.tr". www.bilkent.edu.tr. Retrieved 6 January 2018.



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